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Babar Ali
Named the ‘youngest headmaster in the world’ by BBC in October 2009, at the age of 16. Babar Ali is an Indian student and teacher from Murshidabad, West Bengal. He started a school, Ananada Siksha Niketan – Home of joyful learning, in his backyard when he was just 9-years-old, now with 300 regular students. It is an outdoor school and counts a total of 10 teaching and non-teaching staff who are providing their voluntary service. There are no tuition fees, thus making it affordable for the poor in this economically deprived area and thereby helping increase literacy rate there.
In 2009, Babar Ali won a prize from the program Real Heroes of the Indian English news channel CNN IBN for his work and was awarded the NDTV ‘Indian of the Year’ award. His story became a part of the syllabus for the CBSE 10th standard English textbook, PUC English textbook for Govt. of Karnataka, and also in a curriculum in Luxembourg, Europe. He was featured on Aamir Khan’s TV show Satyamev Jayate in July 2012.
Talk(s) by Babar Ali
Babar Ali: Thirst for knowledge
The joy of learning
Favourited Talks
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2010: 258,379, #72 in U.S., #2 in Nebraska
1950: 98,884, #112 in U.S.
2010 Metropolitan Area: 302,157, #155 in U.S.
Lincoln was founded in 1856. The University of Nebraska is located on the north side of downtown.
Tallest building: State Capitol, 398 feet (1932)
The State Capitol has an observation deck on the 14th floor.
Lincoln has no downtown department stores. Historic Haymarket is an old warehouse district on the west side of downtown that now has shops and restaurants.
Amtrak’s California Zephyr goes west from Lincoln to Denver, Salt Lake City, and Emeryville (near Oakland), and east to Omaha and Chicago. Lincoln has a new (2012) Amtrak station on the west side of downtown, located adjacent to the old Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy station (1927), which is now used for special events.
The Nebraska History Museum, the Great Plains Art Museum, and the University of Nebraska State Museum are located downtown.
Lincoln Skyline
The 14-screen Lincoln Grand Theater is downtown. The Rococo Theatre (the former Stuart Theater, 1929) is a restored movie theater that now has concerts and special events.
The Lincoln Symphony Orchestra plays at the Lied Center for the Performing Arts (1990) and the Kimball Recital Hall, both on the University of Nebraska campus. The Lied Center also hosts touring Broadway shows. The Haymarket Theatre is also in the downtown area.
The Lincoln Saltdogs of the independent American Association play at Haymarket Park (2001), just northwest of downtown. Pinnacle Bank Arena, in the West Haymarket area, opened in 2013.
Map of Downtown Lincoln
Downtown Lincoln Association
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Archive for the ‘Gun Violence’ Category
Gun Deaths in America: An Unending Tragedy
Thursday, September 5th, 2019
We call it “going back to the world.” Home in the USA. And I’ve arrived in one piece. For the last couple of years I’ve been running around the jungles of Vietnam. My new orders direct me to report to the Army’s Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia. I know the place well. It’s where I was trained and Commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant. Then on to Airborne and Ranger schools. Now a Captain, the job is to train the next bunch of happy warriors. My wife and I settle into the house at 3660 Plantation Road in the fine city of Columbus. It’s a nice neighborhood.
A few months after moving in a new civilian worker shows up at my office in the Infantry School. His name’s Bob. He’s a GS12 research analyst and I have no idea why he’s here, but he has a disability that makes it hard for him to walk or move even moderately weighted stuff. He’s rented a house in Columbus and is trying to figure out how to move his junk in. My wife and I offer to help.
So, on a sunny Saturday morning in the deep south we get into Marilyn’s red Corvair Corsa with turbocharged engine and dual carburetors, show up at Bob’s new place, and find a UHaul truck in his driveway packed with everything he owns. We get to work toting box after box into the house and putting it all where Bob wants it to go. It’s taken us all morning, but around noon we’re done and we sit down on Bob’s new furniture to celebrate the end of Bob’s beginning. Marilyn’s never met Bob, whom I’ve charitably described as being “a little strange.” So, being a curious person she nicely asks about his life. This goes on for a while until the big moment.
The big moment is when Bob says to Marilyn, “Wanna see my hair-trigger Colt 45s?”
It’s like an E. F. Hutton commercial. Everything stops. I freeze for a second and then say, “Bob, do you really have hair-trigger Colt 45s?” He says, “Sure do. Two of ’em. They’re pearl-handled, too. Want to see?”
He’s asking a guy who’s just finished two years dodging bullets and other bad things in a spot where serious people really wanted to kill him and his men. To say I have developed a healthy respect for any kind of gun is not giving that phrase the value it needs. Having seen up close what they can do, the accidents that can happen, actually did happen, makes me scared to death of them. I’m not scared when they’re in my hands, but in somebody else’s who probably doesn’t know what he’s doing? I’m not scared yet, though, because Bob has yet to produce the firepower, but my tension level rises like a Goddard Rocket.
I look Bob dead in the eye and say, “Bob, please don’t get the 45s. Leave em’ right where they are. Marilyn and I have to be going. Hope you like your new place.” And with that, we leave.
We get back into the red Corvair Corsa with turbocharged engine and dual carburetors and drive home. When we get to the house on Plantation Road I pay the babysitter and look at the two-year-old daughter I’m just getting to know. And I think about the pearl-handled, hair-trigger Colt 45s in Bob’s house.
Back in 1970 slightly more than 50% of Americans, mostly men, owned a firearm. Since then, although the population has grown, the percentage ownership has declined to 22.4%. Nonetheless, Harvard and Northeastern University researchers conclude there are about 265 million handguns and rifles in the country now. Three percent of gun owners, super owners, own more than 50% of all firearms in the country. For the other 97%, average ownership is three firearms, mostly handguns.
Femicide, abusive men killing their intimate partners, is five times more likely if the abuser has a handgun and lives with the victim. Research shows the number one contributing factor to femicide is unemployment. Potential femicide victims who do not live with the abuser and own a handgun are significantly less likely to be killed by their abuser.
In 70% of workplace shooting deaths, the perpetrator used a handgun. Workplace shootings have declined significantly since the 1990s, but the 70% figure still holds. In the last 50 years there have been 50 workplace mass shootings with an average death count of six per event. According to Jillian Peterson and James Densley, who study mass shootings for a project funded by the National Institute of Justice:
The perpetrators were almost exclusively men (94 percent) with an average age of 38 (the youngest was 19, the oldest was 66). More than three-quarters (77 percent) were blue-collar workers, and 53 percent had experienced a recent or traumatic change in work status before the shooting.
A University of Washington 2017 study found that three million Americans carry a loaded handgun daily; nine million do so at least once a month.
The National Center for Health Statistics, a unit of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, annually publishes National Vital Statistics Reports. One of those reports is about how we die. In Deaths: Final Data for 2017 (most recent data collection year), we note 38,396 deaths caused by firearms. Of those deaths, 23,854 were by suicide, 14,542 by homicide. Despite comprising 12.1% of the US population, non-hispanic blacks were homicide victims in 57% of the cases. Unfortunately, all CDC can do is report the numbers? Why? Because a 1996 appropriations act contained something that has come to be known as the Dickey Amendment. That amendment is interpreted to prohibit the CDC from doing any research into gun violence. The amendment says federal funding could not be used to “advocate or promote gun control.” Since more than 38,000 people die by gun violence per year, is it too much to ask that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spend a few million of its $5 billion budget to research and analyze gun violence. Seems a modest proposal to me.
Although there is no universally accepted definition of a mass shooting, the Congressional Research Service defines a “mass shooting” as one in which four or more people are killed, not including the shooter. Using that definition, there have been 164 such events from 1966 through August, 2019. But they are increasing in frequency and deadliness. If the definition were expanded to include the death of the shooter, the raw numbers would rise substantially. Even so, mass public shootings represent only 0.5% of all homicides by firearms annually. But they are the incidents that garner all the attention, which the mass shooter is craving in most cases. And bigger body counts mean bigger headlines. One recently thwarted shooter posted that, “A good 100 kills would be nice,” and another wanted to “break a world record.”
In mass public shootings, the weapon du jour is the assault rifle. The National Shooting Sports Foundation has estimated that approximately 5 million to 10 million AR-15 style rifles exist in the U.S. Regarding assault rifles, I know a thing or two. And I can say with complete certainty and a good deal of experiential credibility that there is not a single reason on God’s lovely earth why anyone other than police and my military brothers should have one, especially one with automatic fire capability. Anybody who tells you differently is chock full up to their eyeballs with what makes the grass grow green and tall.
Now, I would not be an unhappy guy to wake up one morning to discover that all firearms in the hands of civilians have gone *poof* in the night. We all know that will never happen. But as Peterson and Densley argue:
One step needs to be depriving potential shooters of the means to carry out their plans. Potential shooting sites can be made less accessible with visible security measures such as metal detectors and police officers. And weapons need to be better controlled, through age restrictions, permit-to-purchase licensing, universal background checks, safe storage campaigns and red-flag laws — measures that help control firearm access for vulnerable individuals or people in crisis.
Regarding Bob and his pearl-handled, hair-trigger Colt 45s? One evening in 1975 a bullet from one of them went straight through his head. Police classified it an accident, but I didn’t buy that for one minute.
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Taimur Sullivan and Zach Shemon
Taimur Sullivan is Associate Professor of Saxophone at Northwestern University, and a member of the acclaimed PRISM Quartet. His performances have taken him from the stages of Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Knitting Factory, to engagements in Russia, China, England, Germany, and throughout Latin America. He has dedicated much of his career to commissioning new repertoire for the saxophone, and has given the world premieres of over 250 solo and chamber works. As a member of the PRISM Quartet for 23 years, Sullivan has performed concertos with orchestras nationwide and has conducted residencies at leading conservatories throughout the United States. Zach Shemon enjoys a versatile career as a saxophone soloist, chamber musician, orchestral musician, and pedagogue. As a soloist, Shemon was awarded first prize at the inaugural International Saxophone Symposium and Competition in Columbus, GA and has appeared as a soloist with numerous bands and orchestras throughout the US. He teaches saxophone at the University of Missouri - Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance and regularly performs with the Kansas City Symphony and with the contemporary chamber music ensemble, newEar. He spends his summers on the faculties of the Interlochen Arts Camp, Interlochen Saxophone Summer Institute, and directing the Kansas City Saxophone Workshop. Shemon holds degrees in performance from Indiana University and the University of Michigan, and has studied at the Université Européenne de Saxophone and the Aspen Music Festival and School.
Taimur Sullivan, saxophoneZach Shemon, saxophone
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IFE Services Distributing the PSP(R) (PlayStation(R)Portable) System to the World's Airlines
Dépèche transmise le 26 mai 2010 par PRNewswire
KNUTSFORD, England, May 26, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- IFE Services, a leading travel entertainment provider, today announced that it is working with Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) to distribute the PSP(R) (PlayStation(R)Portable) system to airlines.
Through this collaboration, IFE Services can work with airlines to add one of the world's best-selling and most popular handheld entertainment systems to their in-flight entertainment. With on-board access to a PSP system and its broad gaming and entertainment offering, passengers can watch movies and television programmes and play the latest PSP games.
Custom airline branding can be incorporated on the PSP system, which is fully certified for use in-flight. The peripherals were specifically selected for use by airline passengers enabling the PSP system to be comfortably held or positioned on a seatback tray. The PSP system has a high-resolution, widescreen TFT display and a sleek, lightweight design. To provide an enhanced experience to passengers, the PSP systems will be equipped with an extended battery life offering from 5.5 to 11 hours while playing games. IFE Services provides comprehensive crew training and full logistical support and can tailor, load and refresh content to suit airline requirements.
IFE Services has signed supplier agreements with six airlines to date and advanced negotiations are ongoing with several more.
"We're delighted to be able to bring the PSP system to the airline industry," said Mark Hogg, CEO of IFE Services. "As a veteran provider of in-flight entertainment, we know that many airline passengers are interested in playing full-scale games with impressive graphics, which the PSP delivers. With up to 11 hours of battery life and full aircraft certification, our view is that this has been long awaited by the airline industry and the passengers they fly."
For more information about IFE Services visit: .
About IFE Services
IFE Services is a leading provider of entertainment solutions to the travel industry. Its focus on quality and innovation is supported by a strong commitment to customer support and investment in the latest systems and technologies.
IFE Services supplies a full range of services to enable its clients to provide a first class entertainment experience to passengers. They include audio and video programming, audio and video on demand (AVOD), branded content, custom publishing, animation, original productions and software development.
IFE Services works with a broad client-base worldwide that includes major airlines and cruise ship operators. The company's headquarters are in Cheshire, UK and it also has regional offices in Madrid, Singapore, Santiago, Miami and Lake Forest, California.
IFE Services is a privately owned company and part of the Travel Entertainment Group.
PlayStation and PSP are registered trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Press contact Adrian Lambert Head of Marketing IFE Services Unit B1-B3 Cranford Drive Knutsford Business Park Knutsford Cheshire WA16 8ZR UK Tel: +44(0)1565-752-793 Web: http://www.ifeservices.com
CONTACT: Press contact: Adrian Lambert, Head of Marketing, IFE Services,Unit B1-B3, Cranford Drive, Knutsford Business Park, Knutsford, Cheshire,WA16 8ZR, UK, Tel: +44(0)1565-752-793, Email:
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Single Women Become Major Force in U.S. Retail Spending
Single women might just single-handedly boost the success of retailers like Lululemon, Nike, TJ Maxx and Ulta Beauty, according to a new study by investment bank and financial services company Morgan Stanley. The study is called the “Rise of the SHEconomy.”
Morgan Stanley forecasts that by 2030, 45 percent, or 20.9 million, of U.S. women of prime working age (those between the ages of 25 and 44) will be single—the largest-ever share in history and up from 41 percent in 2018.
Based on the U.S. Census Bureau data, the total number of single women in the U.S. will expand from 67 million to 77.5 million by 2030, with that demographic growing by 1.2 percent a year, compared to growth of 0.8 percent in U.S. population in general.
Women are getting married later in life, in addition to getting divorced at higher rates after age 55, the study notes. Also, women who have never been married are the fastest-growing sector of the female population.
At the same time, more women are getting college degrees. In 2018, 35.3 percent of U.S. women had completed four or more years of college vs. 34.6 percent of men, according to data from sources including the National Center for Education Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau, a reversal of a trend of more men holding college degrees that lasted well into 2000s. That, along with a lower birth rate and women delaying having children until later in life, has led to more women participating in the labor force and having higher disposable incomes than in years prior, Morgan Stanley researchers write.
Moreover, the share of never-married women participating in the workforce has been increasing for the past five years, while workforce participation among married women has declined slightly over the same period.
In fact, the entire demographic profile of the average American woman is slowly changing, Morgan Stanley reports. In 2017, the average U.S. woman was white, married, college-educated, in her 50s, with a career in education or health services. By 2030, the average U.S. women will likely be younger, single, belonging to a racial minority and with a career in business or professional services.
“Being single now occurs across all ages and life stages for women,” notes Bridget Brennan, CEO of Chicago-based Female Factor, a consulting firm that helps companies market and sell to women. She’s also the author of Winning Her Business: Transforming the Customer Experience for the World’s Most Powerful Consumers.
“There are many factors behind this, including delayed marriages, divorce, the cultural acceptance of living together, an increase in diverse, non-traditional households and family structures, and women’s longer life expectancy,” Brennan says.
That means retailers can’t lump all single women together when marketing to them.
“Relying on age alone to predict a woman’s lifestyle and spending patterns can be wildly misleading,” she notes.
More single women is good news for retailers
Morgan Stanley found that by share of income, single women outspend the average household in every category except men’s and children’s apparel, and this growing group is expected to fuel spending growth in sectors including apparel, beauty and restaurants.
“Annual expenditures driven by single women should grow disproportionately to other spending cohorts,” the study found. “Additionally, the rise in labor force participation and closing wage gap should further influence this divergence.”
Apparel/footwear should see tailwinds
The study forecasts that activewear and off-price retailers will benefit from single women’s buying power, with best-positioned brands including Lululemon, Nike, Ross Stores and TJX Cos.
For Lululemon and Nike, the report said single women work out 1.5 more hours per week than married women do (which is also true for single men), which translates into both more demand for athletic brand apparel and into the need to replace purchased clothes more frequently.
Lululemon’s sales are booming with same-store sales in the first quarter growing by 14.0 percent, beating analysts’ estimate of 11.6 percent growth.
Nike is also marketing merchandise more toward women—going so far as to declare 2019 its ‘year for women.’
And both retailers are working to offer more experiences in their stores.
Lululemon has led the athleisure fashion movement, becoming one of the primary players in the $290 billion industry that is expected to grow further, to $355 billion, by 2021. The retailer opened a 20,000 sq.-ft. experiential store in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood in July. The store offers yoga/fitness studios, a meditation area, a full locker room and café. Also, the new store allows shoppers to take an exercise class in the gear that they’re considering purchasing to test it out first.
Meanwhile, Nike has a new smartphone app intended to bridge the worlds of tech and physical retail. For example, shoppers can “shop entire looks” on in-store mannequins via Nike Scan and Instant Checkout, allowing them to skip the lines and choose digital check-out.
Off-price retailers to benefit
Off-price retail will also continue to be a hot sector and Ross Stores and TJX Cos., the parent company to Marshalls and TJ Maxx, are primed to benefit the most from more single female shoppers, Morgan Stanley reports.
The study says not only do women make up 60 percent of Ross and TJX Cos.’ shoppers, but single women—who earn less on average than their married counterparts, but are more willing to spend on apparel and shoes and are expected to spend increasingly more money on home furnishings—like both the value and the “treasure hunt” experience offered at off-price stores.
In the second quarter, TJX Cos.’ consolidated same-store sales rose by 2 percent, though the growth was below the 6 percent increase during the same quarter a year ago.
For Ross, same-store sales increased by 3 percent in the second quarter, on top of last year’s strongest quarterly growth of 5 percent.
Personal care/beauty poised for growth
Single women are especially big spenders in the personal care and beauty category and spend close to the household average, which reflects the expenditures of 2.58 people, Morgan Stanly reported. The study says Ulta, Estée Lauder and Sephora and Estee Lauder are well-positioned to reap the benefits from the burgeoning single women population.
For each retailer, more than 75 percent of their business already comes from female shoppers. The industry is poised for even more growth as Gen Z women, who spend more on make-up than any other generation did at the same age, grow into prime spending years and delay marriage, the study notes.
Beauty industry giants Sephora and Ulta continue to thrive and expand their footprints.
For restaurants, the study found that while single men typically outspend single women when eating out, some restaurant chains could profit from the closing gender wage gap. These include fast-casual chains like Chipotle Mexican Grill and Starbucks where women already make up more than half of their customer base. Other brands with a relatively high exposure to women consumers include Panera Bread and Panda Express.
“Starbucks is already popular with women,” the report notes, while Chipotle also draws women consumers as it has “both a healthier image vs. most limited service restaurants and relatively high exposure to urban, professional customers. We’d expect this to remain an advantage as single women increase spending power.”
Single women currently spend 4.6 percent of their annual income on eating out vs. 6.5 percent of annual income for men and 5.6 percent of annual income for the average U.S. household. Those figures largely reflect the difference in spending power between single women and other consumer categories, Morgan Stanley researchers note. As women’s incomes rise, they begin to outspend men on food purchased away from home.
The experience factor
Single women favor brands like Lululemon and Nike, and “it’s no coincidence that both of those brands have invested heavily in experiences beyond just selling stuff,” notes Nikki Baird, vice president of retail innovation at Aptos, an Atlanta-based retail technology solution provider.
She adds that other retailers like Ulta and Starbucks are building strategies focused on experiences as well: Ulta with its in-store beauty services and Starbucks with its Reserve Roastery experience stores.
Meanwhile, at the other end of the spectrum, Baird notes that “retailers who offer convenience will also win big if they can save shoppers time and/or save money by offering utility experiences that are fast and cheap.”
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A word of warning to our Chinese language readers
Recently, it was brought to the attention of the In Defence of Marxism Editorial Board that some individuals have been interacting with others on the Chinese internet in the name of the International Marxist Tendency (IMT), even soliciting translations and articles in the name of our organisation and promising fees in return. We wish to make it absolutely clear here to all our readers that our organisation has never accepted any contributions from such individuals, nor do we pay for articles or translations.
Pakistan: Amar Fayaz released!
Pakistan Trade Union Solidarity Campaign
We were delighted to report on Monday that our comrade in Pakistan, Amar Fayaz, was returned safely after spending almost two months in captivity following his forced disappearance by the state. In this report, we initially neglected to include the efforts of our comrades in Argentina and Chile, who gathered a huge amount of support from leading members of the labour movement in those countries. We have now updated the article to reflect this: click here to skip to the new section.
Pakistan: message from Amar Fayaz
Amar Fayaz, the Pakistani comrade of the IMT who was recently returned by the state authorities following his abduction on 8 November 2020, has recorded this message of thanks for the solidarity he received from comrades and supporters all over the world, which was instrumental in ensuring his release.
Interview with a leading farmer in India
The recent farmers protests in India have paralysed the capital city of Delhi. About 32 farmers’ organisations and unions are participating in the protests, demanding the withdrawal of the reactionary farms' bills passed by the Modi government on September 20.
Pakistan: huge turnout for Students Day of Action
Progressive Youth Alliance
On 19 December 2020, the Progressive Youth Alliance (PYA), a revolutionary organisation struggling for the rights of students and youth in Pakistan, organised a nationwide protest, entitled “Students Day of Action” (covered by Pakistan's oldest English-language newspaper): for free education and the restoration of student unions; and against sexual harassment of women, state abductions and unemployment. Participants in all cities also raised slogans for the release of comrade Amar Fayaz, who was abducted by the state authorities last month. Still, his whereabouts are unknown.
Pakistan: student Day of Action to be held in 31 cities across the country
The Progressive Youth Alliance (PYA), a revolutionary organisation struggling for the rights of students and youth in Pakistan, is organising a nationwide protest, entitled “Day of Action”: for free education and the restoration of student unions; and against sexual harassment of women, state abductions and unemployment on 19 December.
India: countrywide lockdown by farmers – towards an indefinite general strike!
Farmers in India observed a national lockdown on 8 December – also called a Bharat Bandh – a day ahead of the scheduled sixth round of talks with the government, with five million taking part across 20,000 locations. Farmers blocked major roads from 11am to 3pm, predominantly in the agricultural states of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. All commercial centres were closed. Protestors blocked railway tracks in West Bengal, Bihar and Odisha. Many shops and commercial areas were also closed in Delhi in solidarity with the striking farmers. Despite a massive blockade of Delhi’s main highways, farmers are still receiving solidarity from the people living there.
Pakistan: international solidarity for comrade Amar Fayaz
Comrade Amar Fayaz was abducted on 8 November 2020 by state authorities in Jamshoro, Pakistan, a month ago, and his whereabouts are still unknown. Comrades all around the world are showing solidarity and putting pressure on the Pakistani state, demanding Amar’s release. An online petition has gathered more than 6,000 signatures from comrades and supporters globally.
China: SOE bond defaults show turbulent days ahead
Parson Young
A string of bond defaults by hitherto top–rated Chinese state owned companies in November has cast a shadow over China’s relatively firm economic recovery from the downturn set off by the COVID–19 pandemic. This shows that the Chinese state is fundamentally unable to avoid the organic crisis of the capitalist system.
250 million workers strike in India
On November 26, nearly 250 million workers participated in a strike in urban and rural areas all over India. The strike, called by the ten central trade unions, was the fifth in the six years since Modi ascended to power.
Support the “Bharat Bandh” or country wide shut down called by farmer organizations
A large part of the population in India is linked with the agriculture sector. This sector contributes 17 percent of the Indian GDP. But working conditions in the agriculture sector have not developed under capitalism and are worsening every passing day. The farmers are being pushed into further debt-traps because of the policies of liberalisation and privatisation under successive capitalist governments. There has been a general decline of living standards for farmers under the rotten capitalist system, with farmers being forced to live at the mercy of traders and multi–national corporations for their survival. The Farm Bills passed recently by the parliament are a big blow for the
India: Farmers strike – Shut down the government
Hundreds and thousands of farmers and members from different supporting organisations from different part of India are marching towards Delhi to stage an indefinite sit-in strike. The march 'Delhi Chalo' started on 26 November 2020 towards Delhi. Their major demands include the repealing of three Farmers Bills passed by Modi's government. Currently, farmers are blocking five entry points to Delhi and have paralysed the highway traffic to the city. It is reported that farmers partially besieged the city. Police and paramilitary forces brutally attacked the marching farmers with baton charge, tear gas and water cannons
The Philippines: Duterte shifts blame, but what is the way forward for revolutionaries?
The Filipino masses have truly suffered this year amidst the global pandemic, economic downturn and unprecedented natural disasters. Rather than aiding the people, the Duterte government has been shifting all the blame onto the Communists. What is the way forward for the Filipino masses and what are the tasks of revolutionaries today?
'Peace' in Nagorno-Karabakh: No stability under capitalism
Ivan Loh
As has become customary, the recent war in Karabakh is viewed from two sides in Russia: liberals extol the virtues of Turkish generals trained by NATO and Israeli drones, while both secret and obvious Putin admirers tell us on Liva (russo-ukrainian media) that revolutionaries (in quotes or without) always lose wars. There is not a grain of truth in this dichotomy. The militia armies created by the bourgeois revolutions have had great victories. Not only in the 19th century. Actually, the history of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic began with the victory of the Armenian militia in the war three decades ago. Then, Azerbaijan was richer, had a more numerous and well-armed army, but
Pakistan: protests continue for release of Amar Fayaz across the country
Comrade Amar Fayaz was abducted on 8 November by state authorities of Pakistan from Jamshoro and his whereabouts are still unknown. This has become a common practice in Pakistan in which political workers, journalists and other citizens who raise their voices against the government or its policies are abducted with the help of police and security services, and are kept in inhuman conditions and severely tortured.
Pakistan: comrade Amar Fayaz abducted by state authorities
On 8 November at around 1:30 a.m., men in two jeeps of the kind typically used by security agencies for abductions, along with three police cars, abducted comrade Amar Fayaz in Jamshoro, Sindh. He was sitting near the gate of Liaqat Medical University in Jamshoro when this incident happened. No one knows his whereabouts since then. We appeal to all our comrades and supporters to struggle for his release!
Revolution is Taiwan’s only way out: why we formed The Spark
The Spark (IMT in Taiwan)
We are happy to announce the launch of The Spark（火花）, a website operated by the members of the International Marxist Tendency (IMT) in Taiwan who organise a group of the same name. The website will feature Marxist news, analysis and theoretical materials in traditional Chinese. It will also provide old and newly translated articles by Marxists such as Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky, as well as Ted Grant. This is an important step in building the forces of revolutionary Marxism in Taiwan and amongst Sinophone people!
India: farmers rise up against reactionary agriculture bills
Farmers in India launched a protest movement days after the government passed three reactionary agricultural bills in the parliament on 20 September 2020. This article will explore the Farm Bills, the struggle of Indian farmers, capitalist anarchy in agriculture and the revolutionary way forward.
The spectre haunting China’s internet: socialism’s comeback among the youth
Sima Hei
We have received the following report of events taking place on Chinese internet fora and social media. It shows that, despite the CCP’s totalitarian regime, the crisis of capitalism is still radicalising Chinese youth, who express their discontent online in creative ways. We believe it is valuable to publish this for our international readers, showing a process which is not readily visible through official statistics and reporting.
Uyghurs in Xinjiang: national oppression and imperialist hypocrisy
James Kilby
Both the US and British governments have recently launched a barrage of criticism against China’s treatment of the Uyghurs. The US has gone as far as imposing sanctions on top Chinese state officials responsible for Xinjiang, and the oppression of the Uyghurs by the Chinese state is now regularly featured in the news in the West. According to reports by the capitalist press, hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs are being detained in prison camps, whilst others face extremely repressive conditions. But why only now have western imperialists hypocritically taken up the plight of the Uyghurs?
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You are here: Home / Obituaries / Keith Samuel 1939 – 2006
Keith Samuel 1939 – 2006
January 31, 2006 By Richard Last
One of the BBC’s longest serving publicity officers, Keith Samuel, has died at the age of 66.
As head of BBC Television Press and Publicity for 13 years until his retirement in 1998, Keith was well known to a generation of BPG members. On his retirement, after promotion to Controller in charge of BBC publicity departments for TV, radio, regions and the new digital channels, the Guild organised a dinner in his honour – an accolade never offered to any other publicity chief.
Keith was born in Brighton and after a spell on his local paper spent 12 years with the former ITV company Southern Television. Among many other production assignments he helped to launch a new ITV drama series called Coronation Street. He joined the BBC as a publicity officer in 1972 and quickly realised that he had found his true vocation. Among the many events in which he was closely involved during his 26 years with the BBC were the Munich Olympic Games, the launch of BBC Daytime, and in 1986 the 50th anniversary of BBC Television.
Keith’s devotion to the BBC and his certainty that it embodied all that was good in public broadcasting were absolute. Sometimes his determination that the Beeb should always be presented in a favourable light led to clashes with journalists looking for a less respectful angle on a story. But he was held in wide esteem and considerable affection by nearly all of those he worked with. His own staff knew that they could count on his unwavering support.
Keith worked closely with a succession of top BBC executives including Sir Bill Cotton, Sir Paul Fox, and Michael Grade. Mr Grade, now chairman of the BBC, said of him: “He was a dear friend as well as a model press officer who kept me out of a lot of trouble when I was working for BBC Television in the 1980s. When I moved to Channel 4
I tried everything, including bribery, to recruit him, but he remained loyal to the institution to which he had devoted most of his working life. He was a lovely, lovely man.”
Keith was a great supporter of the BPG and took pride in claiming that he had probably attended more Awards lunches than most BPG members. When the Guild celebrated its 21st birthday in 1995, Keith organised a reception at Television Centre, hosted by the managing director of BBC Television, Will Wyatt. Outside working hours he was known as a jazz lover and a considerable performer on the trombone. He leaves a wife, Judy, and two grown up children.
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Culture & Lifestyle | Arts
On now: the world's largest exhibition of Australian, Asian and Pacific art
Brisbane bound
Site: Anna McClelland
The Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) is a hotbed of cross-cultural artistic talent
From now until April 10, the world's largest collection of art from Australia, Asia and the Pacific is on display at the gallery as part of the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8). Featuring the works of over 80 artists from 32 countries across the region, the triennial is one of the biggest events on Australia's arts calendar and has attracted over two million gallery goers since it launched in 1993.
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Presented by Audi, a long-time supporter of contemporary art in Australia, APT8 encompasses large-scale sculptures, immersive installations, interactive performances and kinetic artworks, along with a comprehensive line-up of public programs and APT8 Cinema, which will address the representation of Islam in popular culture as well as independent cinema from the Philippines.
The exhibition gives Australians the chance to discover art rarely seen on our shores - one of this year's highlights is a major group of paintings by four Mongolian artists never before shown in Australia. Visit qagoma.qld.gov.au for more details.
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Chris Brown feat. Gucci Mane & Usher – Party (new video)
R&B singer Chris Brown has just unveiled the music video for his new single "Party". The track, which features R&B legend Usher and rapper Gucci Mane, is the first official single from the 27-year-old singer's eight album "Heartbreak on a full moon", due next year. The self-directed video sees Chris and his crew unleash [...]
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SECOND SHOW ADDED BY POPULAR DEMAND - RUFUS WAINWRIGHT
FEBRUARY IN FLORIDA
Live in the Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater
New Show: Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 8 p.m.
Limited availability: Thursday, February 8, 2018 at 8 p.m.
Tickets on sale now.
VIP meet-and-greet tickets available for show ticket holders.
October 20, 2017 – Orlando, FL – Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts announces, due to popular demand, a second show added to Rufus Wainwright’s Orlando February concert schedule. The GRAMMY®-nominated vocalist and songwriter that the New York Times praises for his “genuine originality,” will bring play an additional night of his February in Florida tour in the Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater on Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 8 p.m. Limited seats remain for the previously announced performance on Thursday, February 8, 2018 at 8 p.m. Tickets for both performances are currently on sale. Tickets start at $55.00 and may be purchased online at drphillipscenter.org, by calling 844.513.2014 or by visiting the Dr. Phillips Center Box Office at 445 S. Magnolia Avenue, Orlando, FL 32801 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, or 12 p.m. and 4 p.m. Saturday. Online and phone ticket purchases are subject to handling fees.
A VIP meet-and-greet option is also newly available for those guests attending one of the Rufus Wainwright performances. Information is available at drphillipscenter.org.
Wainwright, one of the great male vocalists, composers and songwriters of his generation has released seven studio albums, three DVDs and three live albums, He has collaborated with artists ranging from Elton John, David Byrne, Robbie Williams, Mark Ronson, Joni Mitchell to Burt Bacharach. His album, “Rufus Does Judy,” recorded at Carnegie Hall in 2006, was nominated for a GRAMMY.
His acclaimed first opera, Prima Donna, premiered at the Manchester International Festival in July 2009 and has since been presented in London, Toronto and at BAM in New York. This summer, it will be performed at the Armel Opera Festival in Hungary and Augsburg Theatre in Germany. In 2015, Deutsche Grammaphon released a studio recording of the opera recorded with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
He celebrated the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death with the release of his latest album, “Take All My Lives: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets” on Deutsche Grammophon worldwide in the spring of 2016.
The Canadian Opera Company commissioned Wainwright’s second opera about Roman Emperor Hadrian, set to premiere in Toronto in the fall of 2018.
About the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization operating the state-of-the-art performing arts center in downtown Orlando, Florida. With its opening in November 2014, the performing arts center launched its vision of Arts for Every Life by being a gathering place for creativity and discovery; a vibrant urban destination where artists, audiences and students come to experience, explore and learn. The two-block community destination features the 2,700-seat Walt Disney Theater, 300-seat Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater, Seneff Arts Plaza, Dr. Phillips Center Florida Hospital School of the Arts, the DeVos Family Room, and other event rental spaces. Future expansion includes Steinmetz Hall, a 1,700-seat acoustical theater, along with rehearsal, classroom, office space and commercial development spaces. Dr. Phillips Center is a private non-profit collaborating with the City of Orlando, Orange County, the City of Winter Park, the State of Florida and generous donors.
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Triotech to Create Knott’s Berry Farm’s Newest Attraction
by Dawn Sabato on November 19, 2019
The 4-D, Interactive Dark Ride will revive the park’s iconic “Bear-y Tales” for Knott’s 100th anniversary
Orlando, FL, November 19th, 2019 - Triotech announces a new 4-D Interactive Dark Ride attraction that will be installed at Knott’s Berry Farm, in Buena Park, California. The Cedar Fair Entertainment Company park will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2020. As part of this summerlong celebration, the park has decided to bring one its most iconic dark rides “back to life”.
The new attraction will be called “Knott’s Bear-y Tales®: Return to the Fair”. Triotech is designing the attraction, the scenic theming, and producing the animation and gaming system, which will take guests on a dark ride experience enhanced with 4-D effects and interactivity.
“Triotech is thrilled to work with the amazing team at Knott’s Berry Farm and Cedar Fair on this high-profile project. For this unique attraction, the Knott’s team gave us access to a wealth of archive materials that have been key in understanding the original Knott’s Bear-y Tales®” said Ernest Yale, Triotech’s Founder, President and CEO.
“The return of Knott’s Bear-y Tales is perfect for the 100th anniversary because it brings back one of the park’s most nostalgic and beloved attractions in an innovative 4-D dark ride format that will delight an entirely new generation of fans,” said Jon Storbeck, Vice President & General Manager of Knott’s Berry Farm.
“Knott’s Bear-y Tales: Return to the Fair” is a new 4-D interactive dark ride that will take guests on an exciting journey through reimagined show scenes that are reminiscent of the original dark ride, including the Boysenberry Pie Factory, Frog Forest, Fortune Teller Camp, Thunder Cave, and Weird Woods, culminating in a celebration at the County Fair.
The story takes place 34 years after the original adventure and will follow Boysen Bear and Girlsen Bear as they travel to the Country Fair to earn the blue ribbon prize for their famous boysenberry pies, but Crafty Coyote is back along with his mischievous pups intent on stealing all the pies for themselves. Guests will climb aboard ride vehicles equipped with jelly blasters to try and recover the stolen boysenberry pies as they travel through whimsical and beautiful environments while competing for the highest score.
“Knott’s Bear-y Tales carries a great significance and evokes an intense sense of nostalgia for those who first experienced the ride as children in the ‘70s and ‘80s,” stated Nol Van Genuchten, Vice President Creative at Triotech. He added: “It’s our goal to capture the spirit, creativity and originality that made this dark ride such a success and thus honoring the cherished memories of the original attraction”.
About Triotech:
TRIOTECH, MARKET LEADER IN DIGITAL INTERACTIVE ATTRACTIONS Triotech is the creator of award winning immersive and interactive media-based attractions for the entertainment market. With more than 415 installations in over 65 countries across all continents, over 135 million guests have lived a Triotech experience over the last decade.
Triotech creates attractions such as Interactive Theatres, Interactive Dark Rides, 4D Theaters, VR attractions, Flying Theaters, Walkthroughs and Dark Coasters. Triotech offers integrated turnkey solutions for digital attractions including content developed in its own studio in Montreal, Canada. Founded in 1999, Triotech is a privately held company with over 200 employees deployed in Canada, the USA, and Asia. 2019 marks a milestone for Triotech, celebrating its 20th anniversary of success.
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MINORITIES : A SACRED TRUST by BY JUSTICE RAJINDAR SACHAR
Justice Rajindar Sachar
The guilt of fiendish murder of Junaid can not be sidelined by Hindu Majority under the slogan of “Not in my Name”. In fact Hindu majority will continue to be held guilty so long such devilish acts continue. These acts are a shame on our constitution and this challenge has to be met frontally.
The recital in the preamble to the Constitution that India is a secular state means that no religious group (including Hindus) can claim any special dominant position or status in the country.
Secularism does not signify Anti-Religion. In India people fervently believe in their respective religions and overwhelming number of persons of all communities give equal respect to the religion of others. Secularism signifies giving equal dignity and respect to all religions. Of course it goes without saying that Indian State has no religion of its own, nor for that matter can any religion claim superiority over another religion as by resorting to false premise that any religion in the Country is indigenous while others are foreign. This is heresy not permitted by our constitution, which gives equal reverence to all the religions practiced by various communities of India.
As put expressed succinctly by Lord Acton as follows: “A state which is incompetent to satisfy different races condemns itself; a state which labours to neutralize, to absorb or to expel them is destitute of the chief basis of self-government”; we need only substitute minorities for races to in the above quotation to apply the test in India.
Supreme Court when it said; [Dr. Ismael Faruqui Vs. Union of India, 1994 (6) SCC 360]
“It is clear from the constitutional scheme that it guarantees equality in the matter of religion to all individuals and groups irrespective of their faith emphasizing that there is no religion of the State itself.”
Posing the question what is the purpose it referred with approval to the test laid down by Lord Scarman of House of Lords UK;
‘The purpose of the law must be not to extinguish the groups which make the society but to devise political, social and legal means of preventing them from falling apart and so destroying the plural society of which they are members.’
Thus inclusive development in India and for that matter in any country alone is the path to prosperity. It is an undeniable truth and needs to be irrevocably accepted by all in India, namely that minorities, Muslims and Christians are not outsiders. They are an integral part of India. Let me quote what Swami Vivekanand (who even worst of RSS idealouge will not deny that Swami Ji was one of the greatest spiritual personality of India) has to say of the intimate connection between the spirit of Islam and Hinduism thus, “He also told Hindus not to talk of the superiority of one religion over another. Even toleration of other faiths was not right; it smacked of blasphemy. He pointed out that his guru, Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa, had accepted all religions as true. Swami Vivekanand in fact profusely praised Islam and in a letter to his friend Mohammed Sarfraz Hussain (10 th June 1898) without any hesitation wrote “therefore I am firmly persuaded that without the help of practical Islam, theories of vedantism, however fine and wonderful they may be are entirely valueless to the vast mass of mankind. For our own motherland a junction of the two great systems Hinduism and Islam – Vedanta brain and Islam body – is the only hope……. the future perfect India.”
There thus can be no real progress in India which does not include minorities, Muslims, Christians as equal stakeholders. It needs to be emphasized that development and growth in the country has to be all inclusive – the mode of development must necessarily take into account the needs and sensitivities of Minorities, Dalits, Tribals in India. This was reaffirmed and emphasized recently by the Socialist party (India) which is inspired and follows the philosophy and programme of Shri Jaya Prakash Narain and Dr. Ram Monohar Lohia, thus; “that they must be treated as a special trust and there is an urgent need to attend to their problems immediately.”
The report of U. N. Human Right council, Forum on Minority issued on December 14 th , 15 th , 2010 has mandated as follows;
“The Council emphasizes; “Consequently, the right of minorities to participate effectively in economic life must be fully taken into account by governments seeking to promote equality at every level. From implementing non – discrimination in employment and enforcing protection laws in the private sector to developing national economic development and international development assistance schemes.”
The basic task is to reconcile the pluralism which then exists in that State, and the need to respect the identity of the various groups, with the overall concerns of non-discrimination, equality, national security, territorial integrity, and political independence.
The Minorities especially the Muslims have been the ignored factor by all Central Governments. It is not understood why since Prime Ministers High Level committee Report was given in November 2006, and which had recommended the establishment of Equal Opportunity Commission as an instrument to prevent discrimination against Minorities in the private sector like housing, employment, (since courts can not interfere in discrimination in private sector) this recommendation has been inexcusably violated and also remained in cold storage.
Thus inclusive development in the country alone is the path to prosperity. It is an undeniable truth and needs to be irrevocably accepted by all in the country that minorities, Muslims and Christians are not outsiders. They are an integral part of India. There can be no real progress which does not include minorities, Muslims and Christians as equal stakeholders in the country. I can not put it better than what Sir Sayyed Ahmed Khan, one of the greatest leader of our country had to say over a century back. Gandhiji repeated it in 1921, and also in another prayer meeting at Rajghat on 24 th March 1947 thus; “In the words of Sir Sayyed Ahmed Khan……I would say that Hindus and Muslims are the two eyes of mother India just as the trouble in one eye affects the other too, similarly the whole of India suffer when either Hindu or Muslim suffer.”
This puts a sacred obligation on the majority to fight for justice to minorities like Junaid.
I can do no better than end with a quotation from the well-known Italian author Dante namely; “the hottest spot in hell is reserved for those who see injustice and do nothing.”
http://www.newsexperts.in/2017/06/minorities-a-sacred-trust
http://iosworld.org/national/Minorities_A_Sacred_Trust_by_Rajindar_Sachar.htm
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Blyth Air Cadets Tops the Charts on Leadership Challenge
A Blyth air cadet has achieved national success and was part of a team that completed the building of a vital school in Africa – all within the space of a couple of months. CWO Alexander Forsythe was selected by the John Thornton Young Achievers Foundation to go to the village of Obom in Ghana during the summer to help with the project, working alongside local masons.
Before this three-week trip, organised by the Village by Village charity, the 17-year-old received the Ray Alford Trophy that is given to the top student of the group on the Air Cadet Junior Leaders Course – he is the youngest cadet to win this accolade.
He and his parents, Nicola and Colin Forsythe, attended a presentation ceremony at RAF Cranwell and he was invited to a formal dinner in the Officers’ Mess at RAF Honington.
In Ghana, after two days of training, the team members worked to shift tonnes of rocks and sand, hand-mix cement and lay bricks, putting up chalkboards made out of mortar and assisted the roofers. They each took turns at being a section leader.
Alexander, who is a member of the 1000 (Blyth) Squadron Air Training Corps, said: “The project was really hard work as half of the school was completely unfinished. We needed to be accepted in the village before we could start work. This involved giving the locals a gift and taking part in a ceremony. Everyone we met out there was incredibly friendly and even some of the children were helping us out where they could. It was amazing to see how happy they were, even though they have very little. I enjoyed getting the opportunity to lead the team for a period of time. Being a leader on a build site was a different challenge to the ones I faced on the junior leaders course.”
The South Beach resident is looking to do a degree in electronic engineering after completing his A-Levels, with the aim of joining the military as a reservist in the future.
The Air Cadet Junior Leaders Course involved pre-exercise training, a selection weekend, eight training weekends to build up skills and fitness and a 10-day field exercise test phase at Easter. The field exercise included patrols, building clearances and setting up camps. Each participant had a spell as commander and second-in-command. The tasks tested whether the cadets could effectively cope with being outside for a significant period of time.
Alexander said: “It was an absolutely fantastic experience and it was brilliant to receive the top student award. The field exercise was very challenging, but that was a positive as it tested my leadership skills really well.”
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publish: 2 November 2019
Rivalry between Soviet Union and British in South Asia
The British did not want any war with Russia but it’s advancement compelled the British to have a special attention to the question of frontier defence.
After the considerable expansion of Soviet Union up to the borders of Afghanistan, the British Government in India became conscious about its defence and began trying hard to take the ruler of Kashmir at their command for the smooth implementation of their security policy in the region. The British did not want any war with Russia but it’s advancement compelled the British to have a special attention to the question of frontier defence. Incidentally Kashmir came in for their special attention and they took steps to establish a British Residency in Kashmir and Sir Oliver St. John became the first Resident in Kashmir. In the circumstances, Pratap Singh, the new Maharaja came to the throne on September 25, 1885 under the shadow of fear. From the beginning of his rule, Pratap Singh felt suspicious that some intrigue was going on against him. As such, he looked towards the British for support. The British Resident in Kashmir and Raja Amar Singh hatched a conspiracy and Maharaja was told that he had a difficult task before him. Subsequently in 1888, the largest army of Kashmir that any other Indian Chief ever had, was reduced. Further a British Military Adviser was appointed to carryout the re- organisation of the Maharaja’s forces. The basic policy of the British was to bring the forces in every native state under its control and utilise them for furtherance of the Imperial interest.
Administrative reorganisation in the region
The British started the reorganisation of civil administration in 1895 and reorganised all departments by 1903. Complete reorganisation was effected by the British in 1907. As Kashmir had acquired an importance in the context of Anglo–Russian rivalry, the question of developing road communications attracted the foremost attention of the British. It was necessary to have roads to fortify the military position on the frontiers as well as to resist, if necessary, an attack from Russia. It was also considered advisable to connect Gilgit with Srinagar and Rawalpindi. Earlier in 1890, a railway line between Jammu and Sialkot was completed by the British and it was placed under the charge of the North Western Railway. The Banihal cart road between Jammu and Srinagar was built in 1915. With the outbreak of world war 1, the whole of the Kashmir army was mobilised for active service in the Great War and they fought against the Germans in East Africa.
No change in actual status
However, despite meagre developments in transportation, the state of Jammu and Kashmir remained backward largely in education, trade and in everything that could enhance the life of the valley. Figures and data undertaken from time to time showed that though the Hindus form less than seven per cent of the population, they benefited more from the education bestowed by the state. ‘Not only the rulers of Jammu and Kashmir ruined their poor subjects with the burden of heavy taxes and efficient officers,’ they did not care a fig for their education. The wealth which was accumulated by sucking their blood was spent on furnishing the royal palaces, in pursuit of song and luxury and for the serving of the English; and nothing was spent out of it, for education of the subjects. In fact, this heaven had become a hell for its residents. Devoid of education and freedom, they cannot take advantage of natural blessings. The land which appears to be a heaven for outsiders was nothing less than a hell for its residents. However some cosmetic reforms implemented after the Russian Revolution of 1917. Many progressive reforms were carried out and the masses were freed from heavy taxes extortion, and forced labour. Means of communication were improved; agriculture and industry were developed and educational facilities provided for. The administration was overhauled and a beginning was made towards democratic rule. But at this stage the British Government, itself, caught in a dilemma. After the establishment of a Socialistic regime in Russia, a fear psychosis engulfed them and they feared that ‘with the slightest change in the situation the imperialist pirates will again move against us.’
The phase of intensive politics
As the British withdrawal approached, its Government on March 11, 1942 had declared to set up a Constituent Assembly in India after the end of the Second World War to determine India’s Constitution. It made, almost certain, the lapse of British paramountcy over India, including princely states and the State of Jammu and Kashmir. Before the State was acceded to India on October 26, 1947, a section of the people, leadership and the then Maharaja Hari Singh advocated that the state shall remain independent. The Imperial British Government while determining the legal framework for the future political status of the princely states of India had hoped that the larger princely states would remain independent, that the sub continental empire would consist of two dominions – India and Pakistan and that a number of large princely states would constitute the third geopolitical ingredient of the South Asian subcontinent. Their further expectation was that these princely states and Pakistan would sustain close linkages with the British Government. When the majority of the princely states acceded to India, the British plan went awry. The aspiration of Maharaja Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir to convert his state into an independent country was sort of a last opportunity which the British Government wished to utilise to strengthen its influence and to create strategic equation with Pakistan to meet this purpose.
Meanwhile, Pakistan jumped the gun with the tribal and military intervention in Jammu and Kashmir resulting in Hari Singh as well as Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah deciding to accede to the Indian union. Both Lord Mountbatten, the then Governor–General of India, and British Prime Minister Clement Atlee were not happy about this development. It was on their advice, and against his own instinct, that Jawaharlal Nehru took the issue to the UN and offered a referendum Plebiscite in that state. Once the matter reached the UN the British converted it into a territorial dispute between India and Pakistan and laid the foundations of international or third-party involvement in Kashmir. The act of the tragic drama, on the eve of country’s independence, was dominated as one author says, by four actors whose characters contained the seeds of tragedy. Maharaja Hari Singh was indecisive; Jinnah impatient; Nehru impulsive and apt to ignore stark realities; and Sheikh Abdullah over- ambitious and prone to fits of megalomania.
The writer is Dr. Rajkumar Singh Professor and Head P.G.Department of Political Science BNMU, West Campus P.G.Centre, Saharsa-852201. Bihar, India.
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Professor Chris Mangels and College of the Sequioas Theatre Arts Department
Feb 26, 2016 11:53AM ● By Ronda Alvey
By Jordan Venema
An irony about theatre, though every play and musical is a kind of an onstage pageant, is it needs neither stage nor pageantry to be done well. Still, we judge books by their covers, and the biggest-budget productions can become blockbusters from hype alone, before a critic could ever convince us otherwise. But good theatre, real theatre, can happen spontaneously anywhere – in an alley, on the street, dressed down, without all that pomp and circumstance. And that performance could be the greatest theatre you’d ever see.
“The arts” suffer from a sort of stigma, which is evident in the dismantling of creative departments across the country, and the pressure put on students to pursue more practical educations. So with a bias already against it, some unwittingly overlook good art, and especially theatre, even when it’s staring them in the face. If it’s not hanging on a wall in the National Museum or performing onstage off Broadway, it probably didn’t get a fair shake.
College of the Sequoias Professor of Theatre Chris Mangels recognizes the prejudice against the arts, as well as against kids becoming artists, though that hasn’t stopped Mangels and department faculty from cultivating a conservatory atmosphere as well as producing high-caliber performances. This semester alone, the department will stage three performances: The musical The King and I, and plays Sylvia and Animal Farm.
The King and I (March 11-20) represents “the first time we’ve done one of the golden age musicals, I think, in 12 years,” says Mangels, who expects the other performances to push audience’s expectations. Sylvia (April 8-10) is a family story told through the eyes of the household dog, Sylvia, and will “be produced, directed, designed, and acted by the Artistic Company, which is our core student body.”
The third play, Animal Farm (April 22-30), is a product of the “experimental theatre ensemble,” which challenges traditional interpretations with reimagined direction and perspective. “It’s always fairly out-there stuff,” Mangels says with a chuckle, admitting their interpretation of Animal Farm will be the kind of theatre you’d expect to find in New York.
Considering the quality of the theatre, prices for tickets come at a bargain, but if you doubted COS Theatre Arts Department’s performances were worth the ticket, just look at its other productions – its students. That the program has exported students to some of the most prestigious and competitive conservatories in the country, as well as internationally, is the proof in the pudding. Danielle Behrens, a current cast member of the Broadway national tour of The Wizard of Oz, graduated from Marymount Manhattan, Adam Rodriguez and Cassidy Kipp both graduated from one of the nation’s top conservatories, NYU Tisch, and Sarah Gallegos is enrolled in England’s Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts. Other students have attended programs at Fresno State University, UCLA and Syracuse.
Magnels doesn’t take much credit for their success. “Honestly, a lot of it comes out of the students,” Mangels says. “We’ve had a long run of really ambitious students and they were hungry, and really, if you don’t have the students to begin with, it doesn’t matter how hard you’re pushing.”
Even if his students weren’t hungry, one gets the impression that faculty would push regardless, striving to create a program with both “a level of community and accountability” for its students. Unlike most university programs, a junior college can upstage traditional prestigious programs by offering a real-world environment.
Mangels jokes that a four-year university can be something like a summer camp. “You don’t have to deal with the real world if you don’t want to,” he says, “but that’s not the case with a community college.” Not only are students closely tied to their community, as opposed to living in the campus bubble, but also often work to pay for their own tuition. Many former COS students (like Mangels himself) return to the COS program in some capacity, whether as an audience member or even actor, meaning students commonly act alongside “real” actors.
Some students might find the additional competition a nuisance, but Mangels also believes it becomes a training opportunity as they work alongside community members.
Beside the quality of its faculty and students, Mangels says the support of the COS administration has contributed to the department’s creative freedom. “We have a lot of autonomy to work on things,” says Mangels, as the department maintains financial security through fundraising and ticket sales. That autonomy translates to creative stability and credibility, which ensures that students will continue to challenge their audience – and themselves – with performances that would make many conservatories proud. That might be why these schools are accepting students from the COS Theatre Arts Department, and why you should catch their performances while you still can.
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The King & I, March 11-20
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The Steam Video Company
Last updated: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:00
Start date: Jan 1984
End date: Feb 1984
Network(s): ITV (UK)
Episodes: 6 eps
Genre(s): comedy
Barry Cryer
Anna Dawson
Bob Todd
Jimmy Mulville
Bob Danvers Walker
Episode list & details:
Episode # Prod # Air Date Titles
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1st Series 1984
1. 1- 1 19 Jan 84 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll
2. 1- 2 26 Jan 84 Creature from the Black Forest Gateau
3. 1- 3 2 Feb 84 I Was Hitler's Bookie
4. 1- 4 9 Feb 84 The Secret of Plankton Lodge
5. 1- 5 16 Feb 84 Amityville II, Luton Town 3
6. 1- 6 23 Feb 84 The Fall of the House of Franklyn
The home site for this guide is http://epguides.com/. Contact Us: To correct episode titles click through the episode and submit corrections via the specific list provider. For other concerns and corrections, click here.
Text copyright © 2007-2009, John Lavalie. All rights reserved.
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Home > Movies - DVDs > Korean Movies on "Region-All or 1" DVDs > Failan (Region-All)
Failan (Region-All)
Starring: Cecilia Cheung, Choi Min-Sik
Director: Song Hae-Sung
Studio: Premier Entertainment
About This DVD
'Failan' a rare gem in Korean melodrama
"Failan" is a love story about a couple who've never met. Actually, it's about a one-way affection a lonely girl desperate for love feels for a good-for-nothing low life who only married her to make some quick cash.
Not a romantic setting and certainly not a typical movie plot - which is why it was so shocking that the film was so good. This is the kind of movie that takes hold of you, haunts you in your dreams for days and makes you really, really think about what love is (when was the last time a Korean film made you think about anything at all?).
The film's main character is Kang-jae (Choi Min-shik), a fashion-defying bum who spends his days playing video games, beating up kids half his size and running for his life when he sees his ex-buddy-turned-boss coming around the corner.
So not tough is he, in fact, that when a middle-aged supermarket owner beats him and pulls his hair, all he can say is, "What can I do? She's my mother's age?"
Thus, it's not surprising that when his gang leader friend asks him to take the blame for the murder he committed during a drunken rage in exchange for a large sum of money, he agrees, calculating to himself, "10 years behind bars is not a bad price for a ship."
What stirs an unexpected storm in his grim life, however, is a letter - from his wife.
Wait, did he have a wife? He barely remembers, but then recalls a small wad of money he pocketed for marrying a Chinese immigrant who was stranded here without family or a visa. Apparently, she has died of a fatal disease and the police was summoning him to identify her. This is to be his last trip before heading for prison.
The journey turns out to be something else altogether, though. It begins with the letter addressed to him that the police brought. In it is a letter written in childish Korean script, "Dear Kang-jae ... Thank you. I was able to work here because of you. Everybody here is kind. But you're the kindest because you married me." A love letter never sent.
These words touch Kang-jae, who slowly learns that the poor, lonely girl secretly loved him for his act of great kindness, not knowing that he hasn't thought of her once since signing the marriage papers and taking the fee. In her belief in him as the "kindest man" and thus a man worth loving, however, he sees himself anew.
He also realizes he has lost the chance to love such a pure-hearted woman. This is overwhelmingly clear when he meets his wife face to face for the first time: standing in the dark, cold mortuary where her corpse is wheeled out to him for identification. Later, when he visits Failan's house and her landlord cries, "Why do you come now? She waited for you for so long," he breaks down and weeps.
There are a number of wonderful things about this film, the greatest of which is the structure. Telling a love story between two people who've never met, and so realistically, is a great feat in itself, but even more impressive is how the director brings together the framing story and the romance. The film has the kind of conclusion that sends chills down one's spine for its poetic perfection. The little bits of flashback scenes showing Failan falling in love with Kang-jae are also memorable and touching.
Perhaps the quality of the script is not at all surprising, though, considering that it was written by Jiro Asada, Japanese writer famous for "Love Letter" and "Popeya." In fact, it's not hard to detect the same tragic air that perfumed "Love Letter" in "Failan."
If the writing credit goes to Japan, however, the acting and directing talent are indisputably Korean. Choi (who is famous for his comical role in "The Quiet Family," chilling North Korean spy in "Swiri" and a murderous husband in "Happy Ending") is nothing less than brilliant in this work, playing a third-rate sluggard like it's his real job.
Director Song Hae-sung, who debuted with another romantic tragedy "Kara" in 1999, also showed surprising maturity, replacing prettiness with more genuine beauty - real life, with its rotting parts and all.
Last but not least is the actress of the title character Failan, the gorgeous Hong Kong star Cecilia Cheung of "Songwon" and "Twelve Nights." Appearing without any makeup, she manages to look beautiful while poisoning the film with such quiet sadness that she will likely replace Korea's most popular actresses as the most memorable heroine in Korean cinema ever By Kim Mi-hui Staff reporter.
Audio Format: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, DTS
Video Format: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1
Languages: Korean
Subtitles: English, Korean
Country Made: Korea
Region Code: ALL
Year Made: 2001
Special Features: -
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Learn more about the different Honours and Fellowships awarded by the Fields Institute
These lifetime appointments recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the Fields Institute and its activities.
Awarded jointly by the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM), the Fields Institute, and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), this annual prize recognizes exceptional achievement in the mathematical sciences. To be eligible, the candidate's research should have been conducted primarily in Canada or in affiliation with a Canadian university. The main selection criterion is excellence in research.
The CAIMS-Fields annual industrial mathematics prize is awarded to a researcher in recognition of exceptional research in any branch of industrial mathematics, interpreted broadly.
The Margaret Sinclair Memorial Award
This annual award recognizes an educator in Canada who has demonstrated innovation and excellence in promoting mathematics education at the elementary, secondary, or postsecondary level.
This prestigious six-month appointment will provide a world-renowned researcher with a unique opportunity to work at the Fields Institute with many Canadian and international colleagues on a research project of their choosing, which may or may not be associated with the Thematic Program running at that time.
Dean’s Distinguished Visiting Professorship
This joint program with the University of Toronto's Faculty of Arts & Science brings one of the world’s leading scientists to the Institute for a full semester each year to give a lecture course for graduate and senior undergraduate students. The program is designed to intensify the mathematical research and interaction at Fields by enabling distinguished senior mathematicians to be active participants in Institite activities during their stay.
Fields Research Fellowships
This fellowship supports individuals with a high potential of resuming an active research career after an interruption. Examples of qualifying interruptions include: a complete or partial hiatus from research activities for child rearing; an incapacitating illness or injury of the candidate, spouse, partner, or a member of the immediate family; or relocation to accommodate a spouse, partner, or other close family member.
To qualify, candidates must have been in a postdoctoral or faculty position at the time their active research career was interrupted. The duration of the career interruption should be between one and eight years.
Each year, the Fields Institute offers a variety of different postdoctoral fellowships to outstanding researchers. These fellowships provide for a period of six to 12 months of engagement in research and participation in the activities of the Institute, typically followed by a comparable period at one of our partner institutions.
Qualified candidates who have recently completed a PhD in a related area of the mathematical sciences are encouraged to apply. Applicants seeking postdoctoral fellowships funded by other agencies, such as the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) or international fellowships, are encouraged to request the Fields Institute as their proposed location of tenure, and should contact us for a letter of invitation.
Applications are encouraged from all qualified candidates, particularly women, Aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities and members of minority groups.
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Title Help Needed
I recently signed with Storyteller Publishing to publish my women’s fiction manuscript entitled Baby Drop. (Yeah!)
The problem is, my editor doesn’t care for the title. (It happens.)
Here’s where you can help.
Below is a brief synopsis of the story. Read it and suggest a title. I’ll collect all the suggestions, pick my favorites and put them to a vote on my website. The winner will be mentioned in the book’s acknowledgements, receive a free signed copy when the book is released, and receive a $25 amazon.com gift certificate. In case multiple people suggest the same winning title, the prize recipient will be the one who emailed the idea to me first.
Please send your title suggestions to laurel@laurelbradley.com or send it to me via my Contact Page.
What happens when the college student who abandoned her baby finds the woman who rescued it and steals the infant back?
Marissa Fleming isn't ready to be a mother. She’s just a sophomore in college with her whole life ahead of her when an unplanned pregnancy changes everything. Her boyfriend isn't interested in being a father, abortion is out of the question, and she can't bring herself to tell her parents or her friends. She doesn't know what to do. So, she doesn't do anything. She keeps her condition a deep, dark secret until she gives birth--all alone in her dorm room. And then, there's another problem...what to do with the baby?
Libby Armstrong is an unhappy person. She's lonely, overweight, with low self-esteem and no direction in life until one November morning on her way into the grocery store to stock up on Oreos, she notices an athletic bag sitting next to the cart corral. Inside, she discovers a little miracle--a newborn baby boy abandoned outside on a cold Wisconsin morning as if he were an unwanted litter of kittens. She knows she should turn him in to the authorities, but she hates the thought of him going through the foster care system. In an instant, she makes a life-altering decision. She decides to keep him, telling everyone he is hers, that she didn't know she was pregnant. Lie upon lie upon lie. But Baby David is worth it. His presence changes Libby's life, and she finally realizes the happiness that had been missing.
But Marissa can't get her baby out of her head. When she'd made that terrible decision to give him up, she hadn't realized how strong the maternal connection would be. She becomes obsessed with finding him, and one day she gets a lucky break when her path crosses Libby’s. She steals him back and runs to a distant city. A fugitive with a huge responsibility. But is she prepared for what it takes to provide for herself and the tiny boy? Can Libby find solace with the hole that has been ripped in her heart?
Baby Drop is women's fiction set in 1980 Wisconsin. The plot was inspired by a story I heard on the radio years ago where a woman found a newborn in a bag outside the bank where she worked. She, of course, turned it over to the authorities. But I couldn't help wondering: what if?
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MDC Playwright: Vicki Vodrey
Vicki is a playwright and the owner of Lot In Life Productions, LLC.
Her play, “Hanky Panky”, was a top-rated play at the 2010 KC Fringe Festival and placed in the top ten in the TRU Voices Playwriting Competition that same year. “Hanky Panky” was in the Midtown International Theatre Festival in 2011 in NYC, and was nominated in three categories – Outstanding New Play, Outstanding Production of a Play, and Outstanding Ensemble.
Her play “Thank You Notes: Headed To Heaven W/ Flat Jimmy Fallon” was in KC Fringe in 2012, and then headed straight to the Midtown International Theatre Festival. This award winning production received terrific reviews in both cities, and the production was nominated for five awards by the MITF – Outstanding New Script, Outstanding Lead Actress, Outstanding Supporting Actor, Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Art Direction.
Vicki was honored to be chosen by the Kansas City Repertory Theatre in 2013 as one of five playwrights to participate in their first Playwrights’ Slam. She was also one of the three finalists in the inaugural year of “Project Playwright” in 2012.
Her first play, “Trembles”, was a top-three winner in the 2000 Gorilla Theatre Playwriting Competition, received readings in KC and was also produced as a benefit for KC Hospice by Eubank Productions at the Just Off Broadway Theatre.
Her play, “The Frowning Vajayjays of Shady Pines”, will be produced by Melting Pot KC in 2014. Look for her new play, “A Hard Day’s Night”, in KC Fringe 2014.
Vicki was a theatre critic for Citi News in Kansas City. She has also worked as an actor and acting coach in KC, NY and LA. She is a member of Actors’ Equity Association and the Dramatists’ Guild.
For further information and reviews, please go to vickivodrey.com.
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‘We will build Great Whale’ – ADQ
March 30, 2007 • By the Nation
In a stunning disregard for the Paix des Braves Agreement and the Cree Nation, Action Démocratique du Québec leader Mario Dumont has vowed that he would bring the multi-billion-dollar Great Whale hydroelectric project back to the forefront if his party came to power.
“I still think that export, for Quebecers, is a way to the future, and that Quebecers need more money and more financial resources to face the aging population,” he added. “We should not leave the Great Whale Project on the shelf.”
His comments on March 15 harkened back to the old days when a concerted effort by the Cree Nation allowed them to present a united front against the project. In the early 1990s leaders like Matthew Coon Come and current grand Chief Matthew Mukash fought the project by, among many other efforts, paddling their canoes down to New York City to garner support from American ecologists – and they won.
His words elicited a strong response from the Grand Council of the Crees, which issued the following statement:“Mario Dumont’s announcement of his intention to go ahead with the Great Whale Project is against the spirit of the Paix des Braves Agreement. We consented to the Eastmain Project and only that project.
“The Agreement is intended to strengthen the political, economic and social relations between Quebec and the Crees and establishes relations based on cooperation, partnership and mutual respect, but we find that the unilateralism reflected in Dumont’s statement undermines those written commitments of Quebec to the Cree Nation.”
Liberal Leader Jean Charest promised Grand Chief Mathew Mukash in a face-to-face meeting last year that the issue of damming the Great Whale River was off the table for good. He also announced that his party’s energy strategy policy from 2006 – 2015 did not include the Great Whale Project.
Chisasibi Chief Abraham Rupert, who knows all to well the effects of hydroelectric development thanks to the damming of La Grande River, was appalled.
“An announcement has been made where we have no say,” he said. “I’m against it because of what I see has happened in Chisasibi territory.”
The La Grande project flooded thousands of square kilometres of Cree land when eight hydroelectric installations were built near Rupert’s community. The community also had to relocate from Fort George Island to its current location of Chisasibi because of fear that they would be flooded. As it is, Chisasibi’s 4,000 residents would have just over two hours to evacuate if the dam fails, Rupert noted.
The Great Whale Project would flood over 3,000 sq km of wildlife habitat and divert four major rivers.
“With the big concern for the environment today across this country, it’s now known that hydro projects and big reservoirs, contribute to global warming,” he said. “It’s now time to take a look at an alternative source of energy.”
Rupert and his councillors have been in discussions with Ventus, a wind energy company, in hopes of providing the area with other alternatives to the Eastmain I -A project, which has already started construction and is to be completed in a few years.
Rupert fears that the Paix des Braves Agreement signed in 2002 that gave Cree consent to the massive project created a political opening for Hydro Quebec and forestry and mining companies to come into Eeyou Istchee.
“The other thing we need to understand is when we signed the Paix des Braves, did we open up our territory where the Cree Nation doesn’t really have a say? How is the government interpreting that? Are they interpreting it as the Cree Nation is opening up so any major entity can come and develop? Have we consented to that? There needs to be a clearer understanding.”
When asked, in the event Mario Dumont became premier, if Crees would fight the project as a unified nation, Rupert quickly replied, “I certainly hope so. The impacts are going to be catastrophic for the Cree Nation on the traditional way of life.”
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review: Beck - "Modern Guilt"
At first glance, Beck’s latest album is much easier to digest than his last handful of releases. “Modern Guilt” feels like some sort of return to the days of 1996’s “Odelay,” with upbeat and catchy melodies. If anything, however, a close listen makes it clear that the buoyant production is a counter for the increasingly dark and disillusioned artist.
Overall, the trouble felt by an artist who built his persona on fun is painfully tangible. The latest LP is more consistent than past albums, in both sound and lyrical content, but the two don’t match up. That may be a sign for the future of the artist known for his experimentation across nearly every genre, but for now there’s nothing to do but sit back and listen.
Though he doesn’t ditch the traditional nonsensical lyrics, Beck also balances the album with some politically charged undertones.
“Walls,” one of the album’s best tracks melodically, is also one of its strongest lyrically: “You got warheads stacked in the kitchen/ You treat distraction like an instant religion…/ Hey, what are you gonna do/ When those walls are falling down/ Falling down on you?”
Likewise, “Gamma Ray” combines a party beat with an environmental warning: “If I could hold hold out for now/ With these icecaps melting down.”
“Modern Guilt” shows signs of producer Danger Mouse’s handiwork if they’re being searched for, but — as in the case of his work with The Black Keys — the sound is still ultimately Beck’s.
The album also features indie-starlet Cat Power on the album opener “Orphans,” creating a beautiful purring harmony and at others.
The album is incredibly short, with 10 songs clocking in at just over half an hour. Short punches of melody and lyric make sure none of the time’s wasted, leaving the album to seem much more full than it actually is.
“Chemtrails” is the album’s best piece of Beck’s home turf psych-rock, featuring a drum backing by longtime collaborator Joey Waronker. Interestingly, it’s also the only track that doesn’t include any Danger Mouse beats or loops.
The album ends with “Volcano,” a strikingly personal prophecy of sorts: “I don't know where I've been, but I know where I'm going/ To that volcano/ I don't want to fall in, though/ Just want to warm my bones on that fire a while.”
LISTEN: BECK - "GAMMA RAY"
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About Tip Jones
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Speaking to Brande Victorian on the phone is like having a chat with your bestie. It’s early in the morning. I’m sipping coffee and she’s making me giggle. She actually thinks it’s an “honor” to speak with me while I am sitting here secretly fan-girling over the opportunity to speak with her. Sure, we respect each other as colleagues; I’m an editor for a widely read publication as is she. However, her work has appeared in places that I can only dream of seeing my byline: The Huffington Post, Jezebel, Clutch and was featured in a German documentary which translates in English to “The Oprah Winfrey Effect”. Yes, Oprah. The Oprah. I know I can’t take too much of Ms. Victorian’s time. She’s the Editor at Large for Madame Noire Magazine and deadlines loom near (for both of us, actually). One of the most popular magazines that features African American women’s issues, everything from social and cultural controversies and concerns to what to wear and weaves, Madame Noire covers it all with Brande at the helm. I had no idea that when I said, “I only need about thirty minutes of your time”, I was being dishonest with her. As serious as she is about her work, she’s equally as playful and witty, with a laugh that is positively contagious. I admit it. I didn’t want to hang up. I totally wanted to braid each other’s hair, polish our nails and make friendship bracelets with her. And that’s the key to the success of Madame Noire and to Brande Victorian’s appeal. You’re not just getting run of the mill news. You’re getting to talk with your bestie about everything from celebrity to sex, politics to pop culture and women’s wear to women’s rights. Without further ado, meet the marvel that is Brande Victorian as POSE Magazine takes you behind the editor’s desk.
POSE MAGAZINE: What started your love of the written word? When did that begin for you?
BRANDE VICTORIAN: In the fifth grade, I vividly remember English class. We had to do a short story. I still have mine, actually. It was like an eight page, color in the pictures kind of thing. I remember my teacher being impressed. I have no idea what I could have been writing about at 11 years old that would have impressed her so much, but she said it was really good! I really enjoyed it and just started doing it on my own, even when it wasn’t a schoolwork assignment. I was just writing on my own. Interestingly, I wanted to do public relations at first because I had read a magazine, I think it was Seventeen Magazine, about the best up and coming careers at the time. Public relations sounded like it was going to be a highly sought after field. So, I took a class in it but it was much more business oriented. I knew writing was where my talent was, so I ended up switching over to journalism.
PM: Was there a particular person who really helped you to develop your creativity?
BV: I had a lot of good teachers at different points. There was my fifth grade teacher, who I mentioned earlier. In high school, I was in an average English class, but the teacher had pulled me aside after class one day and said that my writing was really good and that I should be in a higher level class. We went through the process of getting me into [advanced placement] classes. I was able to do more of my writing there on a more challenging level. Then in college, after I switched over to journalism, there was this one professor who was really tough. We had done a project and everyone was getting their grades handed back and they were all trash. [laughs] I had gotten a “C” and I was so ready to drop her class. She gave me some really tough critiques and said that she knew I could do better than that. She told me all the things I needed to work on. Next assignment, she got up in front of the class and said that only one person had gotten an “A” and it was me! It was like…wow! This was confirmation for me that this is what I need to be doing. Sometimes you just need someone to be harsh with you and give you good constructive feedback. It made me step my game up. I’m really glad I had those three pivotal teachers who really helped me.
PM: Tell us about your journey to Madame Noire. How did you end up there?
BV: I always wanted to write about black women and our issues. In college, it felt like Essence [Magazine] was the only option. I wanted to write for them, but those positions were limited. I knew I couldn’t write for them. That’s when I took a job doing medical research writing. Someone at my college started a website and I started adding commentary about black people and their issues. I started writing there on the side. People started responding. When you are writing something and no one is really listening, you’re like, alright maybe I’m not cut out for this. But it started forming a strong community of people talking about their issues. They’d remember my name and things I wrote before. People really started to care about what I had to say and the issues I was bringing up. I just kept trying to seek out writing opportunities. There just weren’t that many platforms, even five years ago, for black women. There was nowhere for black women to discuss politics, gender and race issues online. I started freelancing with Clutch, another black women’s publication when I saw that Madame Noir had an opening for freelance writers. It’s probably not the best advice, but I would wake up very early in the morning, get into the office, and write my stuff for Madame Noire before I would start my day job. After a while I wasn’t as happy doing the medical writing. I knew I wanted to pursue a position with Madame Noire full time. About two months of trying to do both, I quit the medical writing job and decided to freelance for Madame Noire full time, which involved my moving back to Ohio where I am from for about seven months. Moving back in with Mom, you know how that goes. [laughs] But I was writing all day long, getting up at 7 am, doing a bunch of news posts until 6 ot 7 o’clock in the evening. It worked out great because eventually, Madame Noire brought me on board full time. I had to do the hustle thing. Financially, I couldn’t afford to live in New York City just by freelancing and doing news posts. Every article was money in my pocket.
PM: I totally understand that life. I think I was writing more free articles with deadlines of less than 24 hours than anything else. Anything just to get your name out there, right?
BV: Oh, absolutely. Exactly. Editors would ask me for last minute work on a Friday night and I was like, yeah, okay. I canceled a lot of plans during those years.
PM: We chose a fan question from Facebook for you. Robin Joy of Long Island, New York wants to know: What are your plans for taking the magazine to the next level? What’s new or next for Madame Noire?
BV: For me, what I really want to focus on is original reporting and original stories. I love XOJane. I probably shouldn’t be plugging a competitor [laughs] but they do those “It Happened to Me” stories and it blows my mind all the time. Things like women who never use protection but never caught an STD. Things like that. There is courage in telling those stories. Black women usually aren’t that open and I understand why. It’s so difficult with all these internet trolls. As a people, we tend to be more conservative when it comes to personal stories. I want to find more black women who are open to sharing those things. We all make mistakes and do things we would consider wild, while to someone else, it’s really not all that wild. I’d like to have more of that variety and that openness. We’re all black women who can identify with a lot of those things and with each other. It doesn’t always have to be about a struggle, or interracial discussion. There are plenty of other things black women unite on. Like, hey, my period is a problem. Well, we can all relate to that, right? I want this to be the place where you can and meet others who can identify with what you are talking about. It’s the same way with reporting. I think we are more than just a blog and we do social commentary, but particularly in these recent incidences of police brutality, it’s important what comes from us. We sent a reporter to Ferguson to interview people about how they felt after the death of Mike Brown. It’s nice to have that voice coming from your own community. It’s hard news and facts. I really want to step our game up in that way while connecting with our readers more. I think people believe Madame Noire is one woman and it’s not. We’re a whole team of editors here. I want to do events where we can come together, do feel good things with each other, talk to each other about things one on one and connect more than in just the comment section. These are all things I am trying to work on in the second half of 2015 and the beginning of 2016.
PM: As an editor at large, you are responsible for wearing many hats and being the leader of your staff as well as an inspiration to many aspiring writers. In your opinion, what makes a great leader?
BV: I think a great leader has to listen before trying to lead. We come into situations where we know what needs to be done, but if you don’t listen and understand how things are already functioning and what the strengths are that your team already has, it’s not going to be well received. You can have your plan, but you also need to have the input of those who are going to be affected by your plan before you implement it. We do have editorial meetings and we talk about the site direction but also about how people are feeling about their position and what they are doing with their work. That helps you to come up with a better plan. Also, leading by example. If I say we need to be here for a meeting at 8 am, I need to be there at 8 am as well. I need to be the one who sets the tone of how we go about our day. I try not to ask anything of my staff that I wouldn’t require of myself. I think they respect that about me.
PM: What is your personal definition of success?
BV: Achieving a goal that you set out to do, but even if you don’t achieve it, sometimes the process you went through to get there can define success. It’s knowing when to pursue something and when to recalculate. We all start out thinking we want a certain goal and as you’re working toward it, you realize that it’s not what you want to do after all. You tweak it and go on to do something even greater than you imagined. It’s about being flexible with your goals, so long as you arrive at your destination that you are happy with. That’s what I would define as success.
PM: How big of a role does faith play in your life and your career?
BV: It plays a big role. It had not played as big of a role until I quit my full time job to freelance. I gave up a lot. I’m a very independent person so having to go back home again was not what I wanted to do at all.
PM: It’s very humbling, isn’t it?
BV: Exactly. I was twenty-seven years old at the time. When I said I wanted to move from Ohio to New York, people were like, yeah, okay. They didn’t think I would do it but I did it right after school, about three months after graduation. So to go back, you feel like people are going to look at you like some kind of failure. It was all so far out of my control that I did have to have faith that it was all going to work out somehow. I’m not a person who doesn’t like to not have control, but I found that there can be peace in not knowing what is going to happen. That alleviates the burden off of you. You just have to have faith that even if it is not the outcome you necessarily want, it’s going to be okay. Once I adapted to that mentality, it really just shifted my approach to things and gave me more peace. I used to be a big worrier. Now, I know it will always work itself out and I can’t stress over the possibility of it not working out.
PM: Do you believe success and spirituality coexist? Typically society tells us we can only develop one or the other. What are your thoughts on that?
BV: I think they can. It’s funny you should ask. I haven’t exactly worked out the secret and I was considering writing a piece about this. Growing up in church and having a Christian background, I was taught to be humble and not to think of your gifts as your own. They are something that God gave you. For me, I interpreted that in a way of not having as much self-esteem and not being allowed to proud of my accomplishments. For example, I suck at self-promotion. Some people would think that is good, but you get overlooked for things if you are not willing to talk about yourself and what you do. That’s hard for me. My spiritual teachings and background kind of cripple me in that way. At the same time, I meet women with similar backgrounds and they managed to find a way to make the two coexist. I think there is a way you can be proud of what you do while understanding that they are gifts from God. There is a way to use your gifts and not just for your own benefit. That’s come into play a lot more with my journey through my weight loss. Some days I don’t care and I want to be done with it. Then, I see comments on articles I write about it where people say I inspire them. At that point, it becomes bigger than me. I’d be letting them down. I think that comes from a spiritual place. There is a way for them to coexist; you just have to figure it out on your own. Don’t let others dictate your spirituality and how you walk your spiritual walk in your professional life.
PM: What do you feel is the biggest challenge facing African American women today?
BV: Oh, goodness. I think it’s a sense of feeling valued. There’s a difference in wanting to be recognized for your positive attributes and seeking validation. So many people get upset and say that black women aren’t represented enough in entertainment. That doesn’t mean we are seeking validation. If you are going to talk about us when we are doing something bad, you have to talk about us when we are doing great things. That trickles down to your self-worth. There was an article in Psychology Today a few years ago that said that black women are the least attractive women. We internalize some of these things. As strong as we are taught to be and to be heads of our households, at the end of the day, you still want to feel beautiful, inside and out. You still want to feel valued. I think there is very hard in society for us to feel that way. It’s really tough. At the same time, I am really excited about the fact that I was editing a business piece that talked about the fact that African American women are the fastest growing segment of entrepreneurs. I love that we our channeling our energy there. When you talk about the wealth gap and that a black woman’s net worth is a single dollar, we’re shifting our focus in that way. We’re building ourselves up in our businesses. Maybe society won’t recognize us as beautiful, but we are smart. We don’t want to be stuck in dealing with corporate America. Maybe we don’t feel valued in the workplace because of our race and our gender. We’re just going to do our own thing. We’re resilient in that way. I feel like better things are to come for us.
PM: What’s one exercise or activity you would recommend women, black women specifically, do to lead a more positive, happy and fulfilled life?
BV: I am all about Zumba. It’s dancing. I love Zumba. It’s amazing. It’s Caribbean music or salsa music or reggae and it’s just fun! I usually take it for about an hour on Sundays. It burns about 600 to 650 calories in that hour. That’s just crazy. I can’t burn that on a treadmill. It’s just fun and you just kind of forget about the things that are going on. When I am dancing, I feel free. You’re moving your hips. It’s kind of sexy. You’re doing something good for your body that doesn’t have to feel painful. I’m totally about Zumba. It’s a lot of front and back steps, very low impact. It’s good for you. It just makes you feel good.
PM: What is the best piece of advice you have received during your career?
BV: My first editor when I was doing the medical publishing. I was on three different publications. I would be working so late and coming in so early. She pulled me aside one day and said, “Work will always be here. You’re never going to necessarily finish it all. You need to make time for yourself and at the same time you’re the only one who knows how much is on your plate. You need to learn how to say that you can’t take on other projects right now.” I’m thinking, no, you three people told me my deadline was today so this is my only option. She told me to just be honest with myself and the people you work with. No one is going to kill you for your honesty. Ever since then, I’ve gotten better. You definitely need to push yourself and put in the extra hours, but there does come a point where you’ve been at work for so long you’re not even being productive any more. You need to start over fresh and recharge. The work will always be there. People have stopped taking vacations because they have so much work to do. You’re always going to have so much work to do. You just kind of have to let that go.
PM: If you had the opportunity to speak to a group of young women, what is the one piece of advice, based on your personal experiences, that you would give them with regard to achieving their dreams?
BV: Always believe that you are enough. This is something I have been thinking about a lot lately. I think if I got more reinforcement as a kid and someone always told me I was enough, regardless of my weight or how I looked physically, I feel if someone had encouraged me a little bit more I would have been in a better space to believe in myself a lot sooner. You need to believe you are enough and that you have something to contribute to this world. You don’t have to fashion yourself after anyone else. Who you offer to the world right now is more than enough.
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The Village of Pleasant Prairie’s 2008 annual calendar, which featured glimpses of the southeastern Wisconsin community’s historic past, had stirred residents’ emotions and thus their desire to begin preserving their local heritage.
Encouraged by initial funding from the Elizabeth J. Riley Charitable Trust, a group of residents organized the Pleasant Prairie Historical Society with the mission to “Preserve the Past and Educate the Future.”
Pleasant Prairie Historical Society, Inc. was formed in 2010 as a volunteer-based, 501(c)(3), a non-profit organization dedicated to collecting, preserving and exhibiting locally important archeological, historic and cultural materials and sites, and providing educational opportunities to promote an appreciation of Pleasant Prairie’s Historical significance. We continue to gather bits and pieces of our history to help preserve the past and educate the future.
In 2011, the volunteer-based Society established the operational framework and policies that will guide its preservation efforts. The Society holds annual meetings, community gatherings with guest speakers, educational outings and “What’s Cooking” events to foster deeper community engagement.
During 2012, the Society’s direction changed with the announcement at the Society’s annual meeting that the Elizabeth J. Riley Charitable Trust had acquired the historic Dublin School house located at 3875 116th Street in Pleasant Prairie. The 1927 brick, two-room school house then became the new home for the Pleasant Prairie Historical Society. This generous donation turned what had been a distant dream into a solid reality. After months of site work and minor maintenance, the Dublin School building reopened its doors to the public as the new home of the Pleasant Prairie Historical Society.
An Open House was held at the Dublin School on September 7, 2013. More than 300 people toured the building, enjoyed a picnic, and shared stories of life in Pleasant Prairie and their memories of attending Dublin School. Many brought old photographs of class photos, past school events, and former classmates. When Dr. Anthony Bisciglia, the final Dublin School Principal, rang the old brass bell to bring the community guests into the school, he was surrounded by many of his former students. Dr. Bisciglia gave his recollection of the old school days in the school’s “Chalk Board” room and provided an interesting, informative and fun perspective of life as principal, teacher, and student in both the Dublin School and others schools in the district’s past.
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Did Meagan Good really have the Plastic Surgery?
by Buchanan Lula
Posted In NewsTagged In actress, breast implant, meagan good
After being involved in some small movies for television roles for a number of years, Meagan Good began to change into one of many superstars in the United States. Not only did she began to be popular, but she also began to be mature. Meagan Good believed that she was able to get into the realm of adult roles because of plating adult characters in a number of movies. From 1999 to 2003, Meagan good appeared as Nina on the show Cousin Skeeter in Nickelodeon. After that, Meagan Good took a number of small roles in the films entitled 3 Strikes and House Party. In 2003, Good began to get some major roles that she has been longing. She played in Biker Boyz and a romantic comedy named Deliver Us from Eva. It was in this movie that she began to transform from a child into an adult actress. In addition, she also appeared as Vanessa for the episodes during the third season in My Wife and Kids. However, the actress was replaced by Brooklyn Sudano. In 2005, Meagan Good as involved in a number of big movies such as Bow Wow, Roll Bounce, Columbus Short, Stomp the Yard, One Missed call, and even Saw V. following her career in the movie industry, rumors began to taint the news about the actress. It was once rumored that Meagan Good took some plastic surgeries to boost her beauty. The shocking news about Meagan Good plastic surgery was indeed on everyone’s lips for months.
What did she get from Plastic Surgery?
A lot has been said about Meagan Good plastic surgery. People mostly believe that the rumor is true in as much as there have been a great number of photos showing Meagan Good before and after plastic surgery. In fact, the photos were truly booming at that time. If you look at the pictures showing Meagan Good before and after plastic surgery, you will see that there have been some differences in the way she appears. The rumors regarding Meagan Good plastic surgery was so shocking. Many of her fans speculated that she had undergone a number of surgical procedures. One of those procedures was related to breast augmentation. This was due to the fact that her breast looked bigger and mouthwatering than any other breasts on earth like most male fans said. Before the surgery, Meagan Good was said to have B cup, and then she had a D cup size, which was of course saliently bigger than the former one. Hear breasts also look rather unnatural in as much as they look rather lifted and round. This is the typical look that results from plastic surgery. Most people, including her fans, indeed believe that she had the surgery, especially the breast implants.
What’s with the breast implants?
Obviously, Meagan Good gained more confidence due to her plastic surgery. Of the most prominent reason was that she had more fascinating breasts than the ones she previously had. This look was rumored to take place due to the breast augmentation that she had. Nevertheless, many people, in Meagan Good scandal, claimed that the surgery was not really successful as the actress had expected. They said that the skin around the breasts looked overstretched when it was compared with that of the other parts of the body. They also believed that she was not given the proper implants in comparison to her body. Therefore, she might have experienced difficulties since her breasts implants require lots of sophisticated treatments. This was another following rumors about Meagan Good plastic surgery.
Did Mcguire Sisters Have Plastic Surgery?
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Most American people would be familiar with Mcguire Sisters. They are one of the most successful music band in the United States. They first signed a contract with Coral Records in 1952. In the same year, this group appeared on Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts. It was after that show that Godfrey hired them for his show series. Afterward, they gained another success for more than six years. Due to their massive success, Cosmopolitan’s November 1953 named them Godfrey’s Merry McGuires. In the coming years, McGuire had gained a number of successes in their career trajectories. As their fame and popularity got burst, this music band began to get rumored to have some scandals. One of the most shocking rumors regarding McGuire Sisters was that the band was rumored to have had some plastic surgeries to excel their look. Most people were ignorant about the news while some others, contrastingly, were really convinced that they indeed had the surgery.
Were the plastic surgery scandals true?
There had been a great number of rumors about McGuire Sister’s plastic surgery. People were at first shocked as the music band was enormously famous for not only their performance but also their fascinating appearance. During their career, some rumors emerged and started to taint their career. The members of the groups were once speculated to have some plastic surgeries to excel their look. One of the most shocking rumors was burst when there were some pictures issued on the internet which were meant to show the difference between before and after the surgical procedures. Christine McGuire, one of the members in the group, was rumored to have some surgical procedure done to make her chin much more shaped. Also, it was rumored that she had some injections to change her eyes look. The other member who was speculated to have some surgical procedures was Dorothy McGuire. Like her sister, Dorothy was rumored to have run some surgeries to make her breasts more voluminous than before. Lastly, Phyllis McGuire was not free from the very scandals. This last member of the group once was rumored to choose botox injections and breast implants.
A Kind of Normality in Hollywood reality?
When talking about the realm of the Hollywood industry, particularly the movie industry, people would think that fame and popularity are two prominent things that everyone must have. It is due to the believes that fame and popularity are the keys to gain success. And, obviously, there are some other points which have to be taken into account to gain popularity. In this case, a fascinating look denotes the key to gain popularity. When taking into account the incredibly wonderful look to get, most celebrities and artists will definitely go to their surgeons to have some plastic surgeries. This was assumed to be the most dominant reason why McGuire Sisters had plastic surgery. The other thing that was attributed to their plastic surgery was that they were meant to keep their career intact. As the problem with other artists, the problem of aging is one of the most frustrating problems. And, plastic surgery is considered the panacea to their aging problem. It is not surprising how many artists had been rumored to have surgical procedures as the impact of plastic surgery is very salient. When the member of the group began to be aged, there were some rumors saying that they resorted to a cosmetic surgeon to withstand the aging problem. Regardless of the fact that there had been so many rumors about McGuire Sister’s plastic surgery, the members of the group made no statement about the issues about them.
Mariska Hargitay Rumors on Plastic Surgery
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In 1982, Mariska Hargitay gained her success when winning Miss Beverly Hills USA. In the subsequent years, she then took part in the Miss California USA pageant in which she finished as the fourth runner up. In 1984, Mariska Hargitay appeared in Ronnie Milsap’s music video which was designed for She Loves My Car. One year later from the very movie, she had a small role which she played in a horror movie entitled Ghoulies. Mariska Hargitay once said that she never thought about having any television roles till a role for the adventure drama series named Down Town came to her. In 1988, she also took part in a soap opera named Falcon in which she played as Carly Fixx. It was in this opera that she portrayed Angela Garcia who was a police officer in the series Tequila and Bonetti. And then, she appeared in one episode of the Seinfeld. A couple of years later, Mariska Hargitay acted as Didi Edelstein, which was another sexy role she played. In addition to all these movie jobs she had, Mariska Hargitay was also popular for her appearance in a number of television programs such as Baywatch, Cracker, In the Heat of the Night, Freddy’s Nightmares, Ellen, and Thirty Something. All of those movies careers indeed inflated her popularity and fame in the enterprise of the American movie industry. Even though all those careers were so incredibly tremendous, Mariska Hargitay was not free from rumors once it was rumored that the sexy actress had plastic surgery.
The Law behind Mariska Hargitay Plastic Surgery
Plastic surgery has been a common occurrence in the circle of Hollywood celebrities in that has turned into a normal thing for them to have even a batch of surgeries on their face. Even some celebrities were rumored to have a number of plastic surgery on their body. All of those procedures were centered on escalating physical laws of merely excelling their beautiful and handsome appearance. There are so many things that pin down a beautiful look. Presumably in the Hollywood celebrity circles, having a long face with oval shape denotes a treasure that everyone fancies. It has been hard to believe that Mariska Hargitay had plastic surgery. Even so, as the temptation might be so tremendous, lots of artists decided to augment their chins. Due to the reason, Mariska Hargitay was once speculated to have her chin augmented. She was one of many celebrities that had only a single surgical procedure. Most celebrities would go with a number of surgical procedures to have a really significant difference in their look. This sparked another rumor that the actress had another arsenal to cope with the wrinkles and skin sagging. However, this more natural effort was rumored to give no results at all, which eventually boosted the rumors about Mariska Hargitay plastic surgery.
The Chin Augmentation
Most people would believe that Mariska Hargitay had only small chin transplant. In accord with her photos regarding before and after the plastic surgery, you can see that her chin has undergone a massive transformation. There is noticeable, permanent physical change, particularly the shape and size of her chin. Obviously, Mariska Hargitay knew that she needed to have the knife work to prettify the beauty of hers. As you can see, her new oval face has changed her look to some great extent. The chin transplant had made her chin elongated. She indeed looks much more interesting and attractive with her newly shaped chin. The new round face that she has right now surely assured the rumors about Mariska Hargitay plastic surgery.
Did Lynda Carter Have Plastic Surgery?
Posted In NewsTagged In actress, botox injection, facelift, lynda carter
In 1972, Lynda Carter started her career at a local Arizona beauty contest. It was in this contest that she managed to win the competition. Afterward, she gained national attention in America through winning Miss World USA in which she was the representative of Arizona. When she took part in the 1972 Miss World pageant, Lynda Carter represented the United States. In this competition, she gained the semi-finals. Having taken acting classes at a number of New York acting academies, she made her debut in acting appearance. It was in 1974 that she took part in the drama entitled Roots of Anger. Lynda Carter then began to make some famous appearances on television shows such as Cos and Starsky and Hutch. In addition, Lynda Carter was also famous for her acting in a number of television commercials. However, Lynda Carter plastic surgery after and before photos was present for some time, corroborating the rumors about her plastic surgery scandals. Lynda Carter has been greatly known as an American singer and actress. She has two popular famous brands under her name and management. One of them is as a star on tv series Wonder Woman, and the other one is that of the Miss World in the United States which took place in 1972.
What has been said about Lynda Carter Plastic Surgery?
Of the fascinating performance was that she was famous for her role as Wonder Woman. Due to all the fame and popularity that she gained throughout her career, there had been some unpleasant news that tainted her career. Once it was rumored that Lynda Carter took plastic surgery. There was nothing that was raised as an answer to the rumor. Lynda Carter’s big appearance was at Big Apple when she was promoting a concert. In this event, you would be extremely infatuated in her beauty as she appeared so fascinatingly gorgeous and young even though she is no longer young. It was not so easy to maintain such a greatly charismatic appearance throughout the years. When you reach your sixties, it is very hard for you to slow down the lane. However, it apparently does not apply to Lynda Carter in as much as the actress appeared so young and beautiful. It was also in this event that the rumor about Lynda Carter plastic surgery began to spread throughout the United States. When you compare the Lynda Carter plastic surgery or cosmetic surgery before and after pictures, you will come up with one glaring truth that the actress indeed had plastic surgery all over her face. If you notice the 1979 face and then compare it with the one in 2009, you will see that there is an almost similar appearance on her face. This shared the exact facial works. It was so clear that Lynda Carter has reinvented herself and reborn her beauty as a new Wonder Woman.
What has Lynda Carter Said about the rumors on Plastic Surgery?
It was strongly rumored that botox treatment was the one that Lynda Carter took in her plastic surgery. One thing for sure, there has also been some treatments that have been implemented to deal with all the wrinkles and the other aging problems. Facelift and botox have kept her beauty and charm intact, just like the real Wonder Woman. She indeed looks like Wonder Woman, but this appearance has been embedded with too much plastic work. Even though she took the surgery, Lynda Carter still possesses the same charisma as well as a fascinating look. It was assumed that cosmetic surgery was meant to set the camera ready in the enterprise of the movie industry.
Lucy Lawless Plastic Surgery – Was it a fake beauty?
Posted In NewsTagged In actress, botox injection, breast implant, lips, lucy lawless
Lucy Lawless has been known as a syndication’s hottest and bravest fighting female actress in the movie enterprise. Lucy Lawless, that once starred as Xena Warrior Princess for about six years, will always be remembered as one of the most iconic modern movie staple. In 1996, while she was involved in an appearance on the Tonight Show in which she was featured with Jey Leno, Lawless, unfortunately, suffered from a fractured pelvis when she was on action where she was thrown from a raging horse outside NBC studio. In addition the remarkable action in Xena, Lucy Lawless is also remembered as the bravest actress especially when the Tonight Show was booming in the era. Even though she does not wield a sword anymore, Lucy Lawless remains to look strong and bold as what she showed in Xena. In addition to the career in the movie industry, Lucy Lawless was also involved in a number of roles such as Battlestar Galactica, Celebrity Duets, CSI: Miami, and Sign on Campaign. However, just as any other popular American actress, it was once rumored that Lucy Lawless had plastic surgery, which led to her appearance today. You can see that her look is still so fresh and beautiful.
What did she get from the surgical procedures?
There have been many buzzes around the issues on Lucy Lawless plastic surgery. Most people questioned about what had been different from the female actress. This was, in a sense, dealt with by the existence of some pictures on the internet meant to show the difference, if there were any, between before and after she took the plastic surgery. It was rumored at isuwft.com that Lucy Lawless once had some surgical procedures to retain beauty. No wonder she can look so young and sexy at the age of forties. If you look closer at her pictures on the internet, you will notice that she presumably has taken some breast implants to boost her sexy look. Just like what you can see in the movie Xena, she appears so thrilling and tempting. And, that does not change today. There is still some charms radiated from her body. By only judging from the breasts, most people would believe that she indeed had plastic surgery. Also, some surgeons said that the female actress had some botox injection to keep her skin tight, one thing that most actresses do to maintain their look.
The Ambivalences on the rumors regarding Lucy Lawless Plastic Surgery
Even though there had been so many pictures and rumors about Lucy Lawless plastic surgery, none has been said by the very female actress. In many occasions, when asked about her rumors on plastic surgery, Lucy Lawless downright claimed that she never had such an artificial work to boost her beauty. This was surely on everyone’s lips how the rumors and her statements were saliently different. No matter what had been shown on the internet and what had been said about the plastic surgery attribute to her, Lucy Lawless was persistent with her answers, none had been done to change her look, nor did she have anything done to remain beautiful. Lucy Lawless presumably followed some of her colleague celebrities to have some surgical procedures to maintain her youthful look. Perhaps, she really looks young and beautiful, but she has lost the natural beauty that once she had. Well, if Lucy Lawless indeed had some plastic surgery works done on her body, the news rumored about her plastic surgery may already have had the buzz true. The rumors can even be bewildering as none has been confirmed by the actress.
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Title: Elizabeth May
Subject: Green Party of Canada, Jim Harris (politician), Results of the Canadian federal election, 2011, Canadian federal election, 2008, History of the Green Party of Canada
Collection: 1954 Births, American Emigrants to Canada, American Expatriates, American Women, Canadian Activists, Canadian Anglicans, Canadian Environmentalists, Canadian People of Welsh Descent, Canadian Women Members of Parliament, Dalhousie Law School Graduates, Female Canadian Political Party Leaders, Green Party of Canada Leaders, Green Party of Canada Mps, Living People, Lyme Disease, Naturalized Citizens of Canada, Officers of the Order of Canada, People from Inverness County, Nova Scotia, People from the Capital Regional District, Sierra Club, Women in British Columbia Politics, Writers from Hartford, Connecticut
OC MP
Elizabeth May, July 2014
Member of the Canadian Parliament
for Saanich—Gulf Islands
Assumed office
Gary Lunn
Leader of the Green Party of Canada
Elizabeth Evans May
(1954-06-09) June 9, 1954
Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Sidney, British Columbia
Dalhousie Law School (1983)
Politician, lawyer, writer
Elizabeth Evans May OC MP (born June 9, 1954) is a Canadian politician. May is leader of the Green Party of Canada and Member of Parliament for Saanich—Gulf Islands. An environmentalist, author, activist, and lawyer, May served as the Executive Director of the Sierra Club of Canada from 1989 to 2006.
While May's family home is in Margaree Harbour, Cape Breton Island[1] she moved her permanent residence to Sidney, British Columbia in 2010.[2] On May 2, 2011, she became the first member of the Green Party of Canada to be elected as a Member of Parliament.[3]
In the Federal election on October 19, 2015 Elizabeth May was re-elected in the riding of Saanich–Gulf Islands, being the only Green Party member to win a seat. Prior to this election, May had been invited to participate in two of the leaders' debates: one hosted by Maclean's magazine on August 6, 2015 and the first French language debate hosted by Radio-Canada on September 24, 2015. However, May was excluded from the other two debates.[4] After being advised of the exclusion from the September 28, 2015 Munk Debate[5] on Canada’s Foreign Policy on September 28, 2015, May took her message to social media where she hammered the Harper government using tweets on Twitter.[4]
Early life and family 1
Political beginnings 2
Sierra Club of Canada Executive Director 3
Political career 4
Bill C-442 – Federal Framework on Lyme Disease Act 4.1
Opposition to Bill C-51 4.2
Amendments to Bill C-46 4.3
Maclean's Parliamentarian of the Year Awards 4.4
1980: Small Party 5
2000s: Green Party of Canada 6
2006 London North Centre by-election 6.1
2008 federal election 6.2
Controversial statements 8
Stance on abortion 8.1
Chamberlain/Nazi analogy 8.2
Views on Dangers of Wireless Internet and Support for Homeopathy 8.3
9/11 Conspiracy 8.4
Tweets about Jian Ghomeshi 8.5
2015 Ottawa Press Gallery Dinner Speech 8.6
Electoral record 9
Selected works 10
Early life and family
May was born in Hartford, Connecticut,[6][7] the daughter of Stephanie (Middleton), a sculptor, pianist, and writer, and John Middleton May, an accountant.[8] Her father was born in New York and raised in England,[9] and her mother was also a native New Yorker. She has a younger brother named Geoffrey.[6][7] Her mother was a prominent anti-nuclear activist and her father was Assistant Vice President of Aetna Life and Casualty.[7][10]
The family moved to Margaree Harbour, Nova Scotia in 1972, following a summer vacation spent on Cape Breton Island. On moving to the province, the May family purchased a landlocked schooner, the Marion Elizabeth which had been used as a gift shop and restaurant since the mid 1950s. They operated this establishment from 1974 until 2002.[10]
May briefly enrolled at St. Francis Xavier University in 1974, but dropped out.[11] Returning to Margaree, May took correspondence courses in restaurant management.[11] Beginning in 1980, she attended Dalhousie Law School as a mature student, graduating in 1983.
Following law school at Dalhousie University, May worked as an associate at small law firm in Halifax. In 1985 she moved to Ottawa to work with the Public Interest Advocacy Centre. During this time May helped found the Canadian Environmental Defence Fund with the aim of funding groups and individuals in environmental cases.
May studied theology at Saint Paul University, and describes herself as a practising Anglican.[12] She indicated that her life goals include "…in the long term, in becoming ordained as an Anglican priest."[13]
Political beginnings
May has a long record as a committed advocate for social justice, for the environment, for human rights, and for economic pragmatic solutions. She is an environmentalist, writer, activist and lawyer who has been active in the environmental movement since 1970.[14]
She first became known in the Canadian media in the mid-1970s through her leadership as a volunteer in the grassroots movement against proposed aerial insecticide spraying on forests near her home on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. The effort prevented aerial insecticide spraying from ever occurring in Nova Scotia. Years later, she and a local group of residents went to court to prevent herbicide spraying. Winning a temporary injunction in 1982 held off the spray programme, but after two years, the case was eventually lost. In the course of the litigation, her family sacrificed their home and seventy acres of land in an adverse court ruling to Scott Paper. However, by the time the judge ruled the chemicals were safe, 2,4,5-T's export from the U.S. had been banned.[14] The forests of Nova Scotia were spared from being the last areas in Canada to be sprayed with Agent Orange.
According to The Globe and Mail May, similar to other politicians has had interests in other parties,
She once took out a membership in the NDP and admits to joining the Liberal Party briefly to support a friend in a nomination meeting.
— Jane Taber, The Globe and Mail[15]
Her volunteer work also included successful campaigns to prevent approval of uranium mining in Nova Scotia, and extensive work on energy policy issues, primarily opposing nuclear energy.[14]
She has held the position of Associate General Counsel for the Public Interest Advocacy Centre,[16] representing consumer, poverty and environment groups from 1985–86. She has worked extensively with indigenous peoples internationally, particularly in the Amazon, as well as with Canadian First Nations. She was the first volunteer Executive Director of Cultural Survival Canada from 1989–1992 and worked for the Algonquin of Barriere Lake from 1991–1992.[14]
In 1986, May became Senior Policy Advisor to then federal Environment Minister, Tom McMillan of the Progressive Conservatives.[14] She was instrumental in the creation of several national parks, including South Moresby. She was involved in negotiating the Montreal Protocol to protect the ozone layer, new legislation and pollution control measures. In 1988, she resigned on principle when the Minister granted permits for the Rafferty-Alameda Dams in Saskatchewan because of no environmental assessment. The permits were later quashed by a Federal Court decision that the permits were granted illegally.[17]
She has taught courses at Queen's University School of Policy Studies, as well as teaching for a year at Dalhousie University to develop the programme established in her name in Women's Health and Environment. She holds three honorary doctorates from Mount Saint Vincent University, Mount Allison, and the University of New Brunswick.[14]
May is the author of eight books:
Budworm Battles (1982)
Paradise Won: The Struggle to Save South Moresby (1990)
Frederick Street; Life and Death on Canada’s Love Canal (co-authored with Maude Barlow, Harper Collins, 2000)
At the Cutting Edge: The Crisis in Canada’s Forests (Key Porter Books, 1998, as well as a major new edition in 2004)
How to Save the World in Your Spare Time (Key Porter Books, 2006)
Global Warming for Dummies (co-authored with Zoe Caron, John Wiley and Sons, 2008)
Losing Confidence: Power, Politics and the Crisis in Canadian Democracy, (MacLelland and Stewart, 2009)
Who We Are: Reflections on My Life and Canada (Greystone, 2014)
Frederick Street focused on the Sydney Tar Ponds, and the health threats to children in the community – the issue that led her to go on a seventeen-day hunger strike in May 2001 in front of Parliament Hill.[18]
In June 2006, May stepped down as Executive Director of the Sierra Club of Canada, a post she had held since 1989, to run for the leadership of the Green Party of Canada. Upon leaving the Sierra Club, Board President Louise Comeau noted, "Elizabeth has led the Club at the national level from its infancy to the enormously effective entity it is today, she was also instrumental in supporting development of the Sierra Youth Coalition, the Atlantic Canada Chapter and other Sierra Club chapters and local grassroots groups."[19] She was successful in her bid for Green Party leadership, and was elected the party's ninth leader at their national convention in August 2006.
In 2005, she was named an Officer of the Order of Canada, and in November 2010, Newsweek magazine named her "one of the world's most influential women."[20] In the 2011 Election, May made history by being the first Green Party candidate to be elected to the House of Commons. She now represents the riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands.[21]
Sierra Club of Canada Executive Director
In 1989, May became the founding Executive Director of the Sierra Club of Canada.[22]
During her tenure with the Sierra Club of Canada, May received several awards in recognition of her environmental leadership, including: the International Conservation Award from the Friends of Nature, the United Nations Global 500 Award in 1990, the award for Outstanding Leadership in Environmental Education by the Ontario Society for Environmental Education in 1996, and in November 2005 was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in recognition of her "decades of leadership in the Canadian environmental movement."[23][24]
May resigned as the Sierra Club's executive director in April 2006 in order to seek the Green Party of Canada Leadership. As one of her last major acts she participated in a poll of experts that determined that Progressive Conservative Brian Mulroney was Canada's "greenest" Prime Minister for an award presented by Corporate Knights magazine. For her prominent role in this initiative, May took some criticism from commentators and environmentalists. In the 1980s May worked as a Senior Policy Advisor to then Federal Environment Minister Tom McMillan, under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.[23]
Upon leaving the Sierra Club, Board President Louise Comeau noted, "Elizabeth has led the Club at the national level from its infancy to the enormously effective entity it is today."[19]
Bill C-442 – Federal Framework on Lyme Disease Act
In 2012, May tabled a Private member's bill, Bill C-442, with the aim of creating a national framework to address Lyme disease. On December 16, 2014, Bill C-442 received Royal Assent, becoming law.[25] Bill C-442 was the first piece of Green Party legislation enacted in the history of Canada, and was passed with unanimous consent by both houses of Parliament.[26]
The bill was introduced by May in response to the rise of lyme disease across Canada, and in recognition of the findings by groups including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, who have noted that as a result of climate change Lyme disease is beginning to spread more quickly, as the number of ticks –who serve as vectors for Lyme disease– steadily increases.[27]
Opposition to Bill C-51
May was the first MP to take a stand against Bill C-51, on February 3, 2015 Toronto Star National Affairs columnist Thomas Walkom noted that, "So far, the only opposition MP with enough guts to critique the content of the Conservative government's new anti-terror bill is Green Party Leader Elizabeth May."[28]
May and fellow Green MP Bruce Hyer tabled sixty amendments during clause-by-clause considerations of Bill C-51 – all sixty amendments were rejected by the government.[29] May later stated of Bill C-51, "It's not fixable. Stop it. Repeal it."[30]
Amendments to Bill C-46
On April 23, 2015, May had two amendments to Bill C-46, the Pipelines Safety Act, accepted.[31] These were the first Green Party amendments to a government bill ever adopted.[31]
The first amendment enabled "aboriginal governing bodies to be reimbursed for actions they take in relation to a spill."[31] Prior to the amendment, the bill outlined that those at fault in a spill would only be liable for "costs and expenses reasonably incurred by Her Majesty in right of Canada or a province or any other person."[31]
The second amendment was related to the concept of polluter pays. The original line in the bill said that the National Energy Board "may" recover funds to compensate those affected by a spill, the Green Party amendment changed the "may" to "shall."[31]
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^ Maclean's magazine, 2010-01-18, pg. 11
^ Blair Wilson was the first Green Party member to become a member of parliament when he switched parties following his election in 2006 as a Liberal. He lost his bid for re-election as a Green in 2008 and never actually sat in the House as a Green Party MP.
^ a b http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-election-2015-munk-debate-green-party-elizabeth-may-tweets-1.3248026
^ http://www.munkdebates.com/debates/federal-election-debate
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^ a b E. May, Budworm Battles, Four East books: Tantallon NS, 1981
^ "May responds to critics of her devout religious beliefs". Network.nationalpost.com. Retrieved 2011-03-28.
^ "Exclusive Interview in Christianity Canada". Retrieved 2007-05-07.
^ a b c d e f "Elizabeth May's Biography | Green Party of Canada". www.greenparty.ca. Retrieved 2015-05-26.
^ Taber, Jane (August 5, 2011). "Elizabeth May is busy penning texts and defending Nycole Turmel – The Globe and Mail". The Globe and Mail (Toronto).
^ Public Interest Advocacy Centre
^ "Dam deals". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved 2015-05-26.
^ "Elizabeth May stages hunger strike on Parliament Hill". CBC. Retrieved 2015-05-26.
^ a b "Elizabeth May steps down as Executive Director of Sierra Club of Canada | Atlantic Chapter". atlantic.sierraclub.ca. Retrieved 2015-05-26.
^ "Elizabeth May included by Newsweek among most influential women – Local – The News". www.ngnews.ca. Retrieved 2015-05-26.
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^ a b "Library of Canada biography". Collectionscanada.ca. Retrieved 2011-03-28.
^ a b "Celebrating Women's Achievements". Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
^ "Canada: Uranium deals with India weakens NNPT – Pressenza". Retrieved 2015-05-28.
^ "LEGISinfo – Private Member's Bill C-442 (41–2)". www.parl.gc.ca. Retrieved 2015-05-27.
^ "May's Bill Passes Senate in Historic First For Greens". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2015-05-27.
^ "Lyme disease on the rise in Canada, linked to ticks". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2015-05-27.
^ Walkom, Thomas (February 3, 2015). "The Liberals and NDP are afraid to criticize the substance of Bill C-51. Too bad. There is a lot they could say.". The Toronto Star.
^ "Elizabeth May and Bruce Hyer announce 60 amendments to Bill C-51". Retrieved 2015-05-27.
^ "Can we stop C-51?". Retrieved 2015-05-27.
^ a b c d e "Elizabeth May amends government bill for 1st time". Retrieved 2015-05-27.
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^ "The 2014 Parliamentarians of the Year". Retrieved 2015-05-26.
^ "Election Results, Parliament of Canada". parl.gc.ca. February 18, 1980. Retrieved 2011-03-28.
^ "Elizabeth May considers running for Green Party". CTV.ca. April 14, 2006. Retrieved 2011-03-28.
^ "New Green leader to try for a seat in Cape Breton". Canada.com. Retrieved 2011-03-28.
^ "Green party 'has arrived' after finishing 2nd in byelection". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. November 28, 2006. Retrieved January 12, 2013.
^ "Elections Canada – Electoral Districts". Enr.elections.ca. November 29, 2010. Retrieved 2011-03-28.
^ "Greens' May to fight MacKay in next election". Ctv.ca. Retrieved 2011-03-28.
^ Susan Delacourt Ottawa Bureau Chief (March 19, 2007). "Taking on MacKay: Is it May madness?". Toronto: Thestar.com. Retrieved 2011-03-28.
^ "Liberals agree not to run candidate against Green leader". CBC.ca. April 12, 2007. Retrieved 2015-05-28.
^ Bill Curry (October 16, 2008). "May fends off calls for her resignation". Toronto: Theglobeandmail.com. Retrieved 2015-05-28.
^ "Greens can't participate in leaders debates, networks rule". CBC News. September 8, 2008. Retrieved 2015-05-28.
^ Riley, Susan (October 3, 2008). "Whack a Tory". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
^ "May wins Green Party nomination in B.C. riding". Toronto: Globe and Mail. 2008. Retrieved 2009-09-20.
^ Burgmann, Tamsyn (March 30, 2011). "Green's Elizabeth May will fight broadcasters' decision to ditch her from debate". The Canadian Press. Retrieved 2011-03-30
^ "Debate over May diverts campaign Harper pushes lower corporate taxes, Layton would raise them, Ignatieff would add to CPP". CBC News. March 30, 2011. Retrieved 2011-03-30
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^ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/canada-election-2015-elizabeth-may-1.3279045
^ http://globalnews.ca/video/2287461/federal-election-2015-elizabeth-mays-acceptance-speech
^ http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/trudeau-invites-premiers-and-elizabeth-may-to-un-climate-summit/
^ "Renowned Environmental Leader To Speak at UNB's Renaissance College". UNB.ca. May 27, 2003. Retrieved 2011-03-28.
^ UN Global 500 directory
^ "Mount Allison University honours Elizabeth May". Greenparty.ca. May 14, 2007. Retrieved 2011-03-28.
^ Miller, Lisa (October 19, 1987). "women and leadership". Newsweek. Retrieved 2011-03-28.
^ "The 2012 Parliamentarians of the Year". Maclean's. November 21, 2012. Retrieved 2013-03-04.
^ http://www.gg.ca/honour.aspx?id=103898&t=13&ln=May
^ "Colin Dodds and Elizabeth May to Receive Honorary Degrees at AST Convocation". Atlantic School of Theology. April 15, 2015. Retrieved 2015-05-09.
^ "Elizabeth May Speaks at the Atlantic School of Theology Gala Dinner". Green Party of Canada. May 1, 2015. Retrieved 2015-05-09.
^ a b Cosh, Colby (December 15, 2006). "Elizabeth May on abortion". National Post. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
^ Rebick, Judy (December 20, 2006). "Rebick withdraws any support for May". Rabble.ca. Retrieved 2011-05-04.
^ http://www.straight.com/article-387551/vancouver/green-party-leader-elizabeth-may-says-her-abortion-stance-massively-misreported
^ "Green Party of Canada website". Greenparty.ca. May 1, 2007. Retrieved 2011-03-28.
^ a b c "PM's climate stance worse than appeasing Nazis: Green leader". Ottawa Citizen. May 1, 2007. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
^ "'"PM invites Dion to distance himself from May's 'Nazi analogies. CBC.ca. May 1, 2007. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
^ "Toronto Green Living Show". Theglobeandmail.com. Retrieved 2011-03-28.
^ "Green Party Leader dismayed that comments were distorted". Greenparty.ca. May 1, 2007. Retrieved 2011-03-28.
^ "May gets backing from Brits in comparing climate change to Second World War"
^ "National Post editorial board: Getting a whiff of WiFi paranoia". National Post. November 24, 2011. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
^ "Elizabeth May wages war against WiFi". The Globe and Mail. July 28, 2011. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
^ "Are Wi-Fi fears junk science?". National Post. July 30, 2011. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
^ a b "Elizabeth May's Party of Science seems to support a lot of unscientific public policies". National Post. November 15, 2013. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
^ a b c "Elizabeth May presents '9/11 truther' petition to Parliament". CTV News. December 4, 2014.
^ "Elizabeth May not obligated to present 9/11 'Truther' petition in the House of Commons despite claims otherwise". National Post. December 4, 2014. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
^ a b c d "Elizabeth May was 'shaken up' by Ottawa attack when she sent Ghomeshi tweets". The Globe and Mail. October 29, 2014. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
^ a b "Elizabeth May regrets defending Jian Ghomeshi on Twitter". Metro. October 29, 2014. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
^ a b c d "Elizabeth May won't resign after Omar Khadr remarks". CTV News. May 11, 2015. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
^ Ivison, John (May 12, 2015). "No excuse for Elizabeth May's meltdown at the Parliamentary Press Gallery dinner". National Post. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
^ "Possibly Drunk Elizabeth May Swears, Praises Omar Khadr, and Talks Intercourse". The True North Times. May 10, 2015. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
^ "Elizabeth May press gallery dinner speech". CBC News. May 11, 2015. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
^ a b "Elizabeth May apologizes for bizarre press gallery dinner speech". Toronto Star. May 10, 2015. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
^ "Federal Green Party leader blames failed humour for controversial comments". News1130. May 10, 2015. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
^ "Elizabeth May's 'kooky' press gallery speech unlikely to hurt politician in long run". Yahoo! News. May 11, 2015. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
^ Sullivan, Steve. "What the media missed while it was dumping on Liz May". iPolitics. Retrieved 2015-05-19.
^ a b "The mugging of Elizabeth May – Michael's essay". Retrieved 2015-05-19.
^ Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Saanich—Gulf Islands, 30 September 2015
^ Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates
List of Green party leaders in Canada
Budworm battles: the fight to stop the aerial insecticide spraying of the forests of eastern Canada (with Richard E.L. Rogers). 1982. Four East Publications. ISBN 0-9690041-5-X
Paradise Won: the struggle for South Moresby. 1990. McClelland & Stewart. ISBN 0-7710-5772-5
Frederick Street: life and death on Canada's Love Canal (with Maude Barlow). 2000. HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 0-00-200036-9
At the cutting edge: the crisis in Canada's forests. 2005. Key Porter Books. ISBN 1-55263-645-3
How to Save the World in Your Spare Time. 2006. Key Porter Books. ISBN 1-55263-781-6
Global Warming for Dummies (with Zoe Caron). 2008. Wiley & Sons Publishing. ISBN 0-470-84098-6
Losing Confidence: Power, Politics And The Crisis In Canadian Democracy. 2009. McClelland & Stewart. ISBN 0-7710-5760-1
Canadian federal election, 1980: Cape Breton Highlands—Canso
Liberal Allan J. MacEachen 18,262 50.40% +2.30%
Progressive Conservative Bill Kelly 12,799 35.32% -3.44%
New Democratic William J. Woodfine 4,902 13.53% +0.39%
Independent Elizabeth May 272 0.75% *
Canadian federal by-election, November 27, 2006: London North Centre
Resignation of Joe Fontana
∆%
Liberal Glen Pearson 13,287 34.85% −5.27
Green Elizabeth May 9,864 25.87% +20.38
Conservative Dianne Haskett 9,309 24.42% −5.48
New Democratic Megan Walker 5,388 14.13% −9.62
Progressive Canadian Steven Hunter 145 0.38% −0.09
Independent Robert Ede 77 0.20% –
Canadian Action Will Arlow 53 0.14% –
Total 38,123 100.00%
Canadian federal election, 2008: Central Nova
Conservative Peter MacKay 18,239 46.6 +6.54
Green Elizabeth May 12,620 32.2 +30.61
New Democratic Louise Lorifice 7,657 19.6 -4.96
Christian Heritage Michael Harris MacKay 427 1.1 Ø
Canadian Action Paul Kemp 196 0.5 Ø
Total valid votes 39,139
Canadian federal election, 2011: Saanich—Gulf Islands
Green Elizabeth May 31,890 46.33 +35.88 $87,738
Conservative Gary Lunn 24,544 35.66 −7.77 $89,604
New Democratic Edith Loring-Kuhanga 8,185 11.89 +6.20 $66,273
Liberal Renée Hetherington 4,208 6.11 −33.25 $50,002
Total valid votes/Expense limit 68,827 100.0 $293,617
Total rejected ballots 160 0.23
Turnout 68,987 75.25
Eligible voters 91,673
Green gain from Conservative Swing +21.82
Green Elizabeth May 37,076 54.35% +7.93 –
Conservative Robert Boyd 13,263 19.44% -17.04 –
Liberal Tim Kane 11,430 16.76% +10.70 –
New Democratic Alicia Cormier 6,181 9.06% -1.98 –
Libertarian Meghan Jess Porter 268 0.39% +0.39 –
Total valid votes/Expense limit 68,218 100.0 $221,816.53
Total rejected ballots – – –
Turnout – – –
Source: Elections Canada[88][89]
Other senior members of the media have called into question why this speech received so much attention from the press.[86] CBC's Michael Enright noted that the Press Gallery Dinner has long been home to rowdy behaviour by both politicians and journalists, usually attracting little or no coverage.[87] In his Sunday Edition segment, Enright even pondered, "Why the mountain of coverage, nearly all of it unsympathetic? Was it because she was appearing before a roomful of journalists? Would the story have disappeared if she had been speaking to environmentalists? Was it because she sometimes has seemed to be holier than thou? Was it because she is a woman? Whatever the reason, May was mugged by the media."[87]
May later blamed her actions on fatigue and insisted she hadn't had too much to drink.[83][84] "I didn't have a lot of wine," May said, "but it may have hit me harder than I thought it would".[83] When questioned if she should resign, May responded that "a lot of people have given bad press gallery speeches and have gone on to be Prime Minister or gone on to lead other aspects of their lives, time will tell."[79] May was quick to admit that her remarks at the annual press gallery dinner in Gatineau, Que., were a poor attempt at comedy. However, she said they shouldn't detract from her political track record. President of the Treasury Board Tony Clement and NDP House Leader Peter Julian said Monday afternoon that May's apology was sufficient. "Look, she's apologized which was appropriate and I'm going to leave the matter at that," Clement told reporters.[79] Laura Peck, senior partner at TransformLeaders.ca, said, "She has apologized. She's done the right thing, she's apologized," Peck said. "One mistake is forgivable, two is a pattern." It's more of an "inside Ottawa beltway" thing anyway, Peck added.[85]
At the Parliamentary Press Gallery's dinner on May 9, 2015, May was recorded on video in front of an audience stating, "Welcome back, Omar Khadr. It matters to say it. Welcome back, Omar Khadr. You're home," in reference to Omar Khadr, a convicted child soldier.[79] She further said, "Omar Khadr, you've got more class than the whole fucking cabinet," before being escorted off the stage by Transport Minister Lisa Raitt.[79] Early in her speech she also questioned why no-one else had mentioned the event was being held on First Nations territory, asking "What the fuck is wrong with the rest of you?"[80][81] May then incorrectly mentioned that the event was held on the traditional territory of Saskatchewan's Perry Bellegarde.[82]
2015 Ottawa Press Gallery Dinner Speech
In 2014, May sent out a series of tweets defending Jian Ghomeshi, who faced allegations from three women that the radio host was physically violent to them without their consent during sexual encounters.[77] "I think Jian is wonderful. Likely TMI for an old fogey like me, but his private life is none of our beeswax.", May wrote.[77] May then wrote "I have known Jian and something at work here doesn't make sense. Innocent until proven guilty."[77] When one user accused her of "buying into" rape culture, she replied, "As a feminist, I do not buy into rape culture."[78] May later stated that she regretted defending Ghomeshi, stating that she had not yet read about the allegations of physical violence in the Toronto Star and that she was still "shaken up" by Parliament shootings when she wrote the tweets.[77][78]
Tweets about Jian Ghomeshi
In December 2014, May presented a petition by members of 9/11 attacks in New York in 2001. While May stated that, "It is an obligation of an MP to present every petition submitted to them",[75][76] the House of Commons rules do not require MPs to present petitions to parliament.[75] In 2012, the NDP declined to present a similar petition by another 9/11 Truth group to parliament.[75]
June, during a heated Twitter exchange with May, a Green Party critic downloaded the party's platform from GreenParty.ca and found reference to the party's support of government subsidized homeopathy.[74] Homeopathy found its way into the platform "by accident," May later said.[74]
In 2011, May Tweeted a flurry of warnings about the possible dangers of WiFi using her cellphone.[71] May's comments that the use of WiFi might be related to the "disappearance of pollinating insects" and writing that WiFi was a "possible human carcinogen" fuelled attacks over the scientific soundness of her views.[72] "It is very disturbing how quickly Wi-Fi has moved into schools as it is children who are the most vulnerable," she wrote.[73]
Views on Dangers of Wireless Internet and Support for Homeopathy
[70][69] saying "I made reference to Mr. Monbiot's statement to highlight the damage being done to Canada's international reputation, something that should concern all Canadians."[68] In a
In April 2007, during a speech by May to a Neville Chamberlain."[65] "We have a moral obligation to our Lord and Father to ensure we don't destroy the creation that was given to us. Through the power of our Lord and Jesus Christ, we can meet this moral obligation," said May.[66] She condemned Prime Minister Stephen Harper's stance on climate change, comparing it to "a grievance worse than Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of the Nazis."[66] The statement drew criticism from the Canadian Jewish Congress and opposition parties. While Opposition leader Stéphane Dion refused to respond to Harper's request for him to distance himself from May and these remarks during Question Period, Dion did state to reporters outside Commons that May should withdraw the remarks, and that the Nazi regime is beyond any comparison.[67] May said she was having "a lousy week" because of the federal government's weak action plan on the environment, was standing by her comments.[66]
Chamberlain/Nazi analogy
May speaks at the Fair Vote Canada National Day of Action in Ottawa May 14, 2011.
During a visit in 2006 to the Mount St. Joseph's Convent in London, Ontario, May responded to a nun's question about her position on abortion stating that, "I don't think a woman has a frivolous right to choose."[62] "Nobody in their right mind," she told the nuns, "is for abortions. I've talked women out of having abortions. I would never have an abortion myself, not in a million years. I can't imagine the circumstances that would have ever induced me to it."[62] Following reports of May's statements, prominent Canadian feminist Judy Rebick announced that she was withdrawing her previous support of May and the Green Party because of May's questioning "the most important victory of the women's movement of my generation".[63] May has since said the her stance has been misreported.[64]
Stance on abortion
Controversial statements
International Conservation Award from Friends of Nature, 1985
Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada, in recognition of significant contribution to compatriots, community and to Canada, 1992
Elizabeth May Chair in Women's Health and the Environment, Dalhousie University, 1998.[22]
Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters (DHumL), Mount Saint Vincent University, 2000.
Harkin Award from the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society for her lifetime achievement in promoting the protection of Canada's wilderness, 2002
Best Activist Award, Coast Magazine, Best of Halifax Readers' Poll, 2002
Honorary Doctorate of Laws, University of New Brunswick, 2003.[54]
United Nations Global 500 award.[55]
Officer of the Order of Canada, 2005.
Couchiching Award for Excellence in Public Policy, 2006
Honorary Doctorate of Laws, Mount Allison University, 2007.[56]
Newsweek Magazine: One of World's Most Influential women, November 28, 2010[57]
Maclean's Parliamentarian of the Year, 2012[58]
Awarded the Canadian Version of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012[59]
Maclean's Hardest Working Parliamentarian of the Year, 2013[33]
Honorary Doctor of Divinity (D.D.), Atlantic School of Theology, 2015.[60][61]
May ran for re-election in the riding of Saanich–Gulf Islands in the October 19 federal election and was successful in regaining her seat in Parliament.[51] She is the party’s only member that will sit in the House of Commons.[52] In October, Prime Minister designate Justin Trudeau invited May to be part of the Canadian delegation to the United Nations summit on climate change to be held in Paris, France in late November 2015; the summit is intended to negotiate post 2020 targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. According to Maclean's, "May, who requested and received a 30-minute meeting with Trudeau this week even as he was immersed in transition plans for swearing in a new Liberal government on Nov. 4, said his willingness to engage with opposition parties is also encouraging, suggesting a less hyper-partisan style of governing." [53]
On March 29, 2011 the broadcast consortium organizing the televised national leaders' debate for the 2011 federal election announced that it would not invite May.[47][48][49][50] Despite her exclusion from the national debates, she won her riding, defeating the incumbent Gary Lunn.[21] Nationally the Greens received 4 percent of the popular vote.
In 2010, following a survey of potentially favourable electoral districts across the county, May announced her intention to run in Saanich—Gulf Islands, in British Columbia against Conservative cabinet minister Gary Lunn.[46]
May received 32% of the vote in Central Nova in 2008 to MacKay's 47%. Nationally the Greens received 6.8 percent of the popular vote.
May was initially excluded from the televised national leadership debate in the 2008 federal election, based on the lack of any elected Green party MPs. She argued that the TV network consortium's initial exclusion of the Green Party of Canada was "anti-democratic" and blamed it on "the decision-making of a small group of TV network executives".[44] Eventually May was invited to attend the televised debate.[45]
On April 12, 2007, Liberal Party leader Stéphane Dion announced that the Liberals would not run a candidate in Central Nova in return for the Greens not running a candidate in Dion's safe Saint-Laurent—Cartierville riding.[42] There was criticism from prominent Green Party members of May's failing to support all Green candidates unequivocally during the 2008 election, as she made favorable comments about Liberal leader Stéphane Dion and said that supporters in close ridings might consider voting strategically to attempt to defeat the Conservatives.[43]
On March 17, 2007, May announced that she would run in the Nova Scotia riding of Central Nova, in the 2008 federal election.[40] The riding was held by Conservative National Defence Minister Peter MacKay. May has explained that she chose Central Nova to avoid running against a Liberal or NDP incumbent.[41]
In the fall of 2006, May ran for election in London North Centre, finishing second to Glen Pearson of the Liberal Party. While she lost, May's showing in this by-election was the best result, in terms of percentage, ever achieved by the Green Party of Canada,[38][39]
2006 London North Centre by-election
On August 26, 2006, May won the leadership election on the first ballot. She tallied 65.3% of the votes, beating her main rival, David Chernushenko (33.3%) and Jim Fannon (0.88%). She said one of the main platforms for the next election would be to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). At the time of her election as leader, May said she intended to run in the riding of Cape Breton—Canso in the next federal election, although she also said she would stand in a federal byelection if one occurred prior to the next general election.[37]
On May 9, 2006, May entered the Green Party of Canada's leadership race.[36] She announced her intent to make the party "a force". She cited the "major planetary catastrophe" and "climate crisis" and the "crisis of democracy" as primary issues.
2000s: Green Party of Canada
In 1980, May and others launched a political party to raise environment and anti-nuclear issues dubbed "the Small Party". The party ran 12 candidates in six provinces, in the 1980 federal election. May, at the time a 25-year-old waitress, ran against the former Deputy Prime Minister, Allan J. MacEachen in Cape Breton Highlands—Canso. She placed last in a field of four candidates receiving 272 votes.[35]
1980: Small Party
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Title: La Fenice
Subject: Rigoletto, Leyla Gencer, Beatrice di Tenda, Venice, La traviata discography
Collection: Music in Venice, Music Venues Completed in 1792, Music Venues Completed in 1837, Music Venues Completed in 2003, Opera Houses in Italy, Opera World Premieres at La Fenice, Theatres Completed in 1792, Theatres Completed in 1837, Theatres Completed in 2003, Theatres in Venice
Emblem hanging in the entrance to the opera house
Facade of La Fenice in 2007
Teatro La Fenice (pronounced , "The Phoenix") is an opera house in Venice, Italy. It is one of "the most famous and renowned landmarks in the history of Italian theatre",[1] and in the history of opera as a whole. Especially in the 19th century, La Fenice became the site of many famous operatic premieres at which the works of several of the four major bel canto era composers—Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, and Verdi were performed.
Its name reflects its role in permitting an opera company to "rise from the ashes" despite losing the use of three theatres to fire, the first in 1774 after the city's leading house was destroyed and rebuilt but not opened until 1792; the second fire came in 1836, but rebuilding was completed within a year. However, the third fire was the result of arson. It destroyed the house in 1996 leaving only the exterior walls, but it was rebuilt and re-opened in November 2004.
First theatre 1.1
Second theatre 1.2
Present theatre 1.3
First theatre
In 1774, the San Benedetto Theatre, which had been Venice's leading opera house for more than forty years, burned to the ground. By 1789, with interest from a number of wealthy opera lovers who wanted a spectacular new house, "a carefully defined competition" was organised to find a suitable architect. It was won by Gianantonio Selva who proposed a neoclassical style building with 170 identical boxes in tiers in a traditional horseshoe shaped auditorium, which had been the favoured style since it was introduced as early as 1642 in Venice.[2] The house would face on one side a campo, or small plaza, and on the other a canal, with an entrance which gave direct access backstage and into the theatre.[2]
However, the process was not without controversy especially in regard to the aesthetics of the building. Some thirty responses were received and, as Romanelli accounts, Selva's was designated as the design to be constructed, the actual award for best design went to his chief rival, Pietro Bianchi.[1] However, Selva's design and finished opera house appears to have been of high quality and the one best suited to the limitations of the physical space it was obliged to inhabit.[1]
Interior of first theatre, 1829
Construction in began in June 1790, and by May 1792 the theatre was completed. It was named "La Fenice", in reference to the company's survival, first of the fire, then of the loss of its former quarters. La Fenice was inaugurated on 16 May 1792, with an opera by Giovanni Paisiello entitled I giuochi d'Agrigento set to a libretto by Alessandro Pepoli.
But no sooner had the opera house been rebuilt than a legal dispute broke out between the company managing it and the owners, the Venier family. The issue was decided in favor of the Veniers.
At the beginning of the 19th century, La Fenice acquired a European reputation. Rossini mounted two major productions there: Tancredi in 1813 and Semiramide in 1823. Two of Bellini's operas were given their premieres there: I Capuleti e i Montecchi in March 1830 and Beatrice di Tenda in March 1833. Donizetti, fresh from his triumphs at La Scala in Milan and at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, returned to Venice in 1836 with his Belisario, after an absence of seventeen years.
Second theatre
Interior of La Fenice in 1837
In December 1836, disaster struck again when the theatre was destroyed by fire. However, it was quickly rebuilt with a design provided by the architect-engineer team of the brothers, Tommaso and Giovanni Battista Meduna.[3] The interior displays a late-Empire luxury of gilt decorations, plushy extravagance and stucco. La Fenice once again rose from its ashes to open its doors on the evening of 26 December 1837.
Giuseppe Verdi's association with La Fenice began in 1844, with the premiere performance of Ernani during the carnival season. Over the next thirteen years, the premieres of Attila, Rigoletto, La traviata and Simon Boccanegra took place there.
During the First World War, La Fenice was closed, but reopened to become the scene of much activity, attracting many of the world's greatest singers and conductors. In 1930, the Venice Biennale initiated the First International Festival of Contemporary Music, which brought such composers as Stravinsky and Britten, and more recently Berio, Nono and Bussotti, to write for La Fenice.
On 29 January 1996, it was completely destroyed by fire. Only its acoustics was preserved, since Lamberto Tronchin, an Italian acoustician, measured the acoustics 2 months earlier.[4] Arson was immediately suspected. In March 2001, a court in Venice found two electricians, Enrico Carella and his cousin Massimiliano Marchetti, guilty of setting the fire. They appeared to have set the building ablaze because their company was facing heavy fines over delays in repair work in which they were engaged. Carella, the company's owner, disappeared after a final appeal was turned down. He had been sentenced to seven years in prison. Marchetti surrendered and served a six-year sentence. Ultimately, Carella was arrested in February 2007 at the Mexico-Belize border, was extradited to Italy, and released on day parole after serving 16 months.
Present theatre
Detail of the decoration
After various delays, reconstruction began in earnest in 2001. In 650 days, a team of two hundred plasterers, artists, woodworkers, and other craftsman succeeded in recreating the ambiance of the old theatre at a cost of some €90 million. As Gillian Price notes, "This time round, thanks to an enlightened project by late Italian architect Aldo Rossi and the motto "how it was, where it was", it has been fitted out with extra rehearsal areas and state-of-the-art stage equipment, while the seating capacity has been increased from 840 to 1000."[5]
La Fenice was rebuilt in 19th-century style on the basis of a design by architect Aldo Rossi who, in order to obtain details of its design, used still photographs from the opening scenes of Luchino Visconti's 1954 film Senso which had been filmed in the house. It reopened on 14 December 2003 with an inaugural concert of Beethoven, Wagner, and Stravinsky. The first staged opera was a production of La traviata in November 2004.
Critical response to the rebuilt La Fenice was mixed. The music critic of the paper Il Tempo, Enrico Cavalotti, was satisfied. He found the colours a bit bright but the sound good and compact. However, for his colleague Dino Villatico of the La Repubblica, the acoustics of the new hall lacked resonance and the colours were painfully bright. He found it "kitsch, a fake imitation of the past". He said that "the city should have had the nerve to build a completely new theater; Venice betrayed its innovative past by ignoring it".
Berendt, John, The City of Falling Angels, New York: The Penguin Press, 2005 ISBN 1-59420-058-0. The book centres on the fire that destroyed La Fenice for the second time and its aftermath. See Penguin Reading Guides
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^ a b c Romanelli 1997, p. 151
^ a b Beauvert 1995, p. 34
^ La Fenice's website account of the Meduna brothers' design, teatrolafenice.it
^ Acoustics of the Former Teatro -La Fenice- in Venice, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Volume 45 Issue 12 pp. 1051-1062; December 1997.
^ Gillian Price, "La Fenice Reopens on 12 November", Opera Today, 12 November 2004
Beauvert, Thierry (1995), Opera Houses of the World, New York: The Vendome Press. ISBN 0-86565-978-8
Romanelli, Giandomenico et al (1997), Gran Teatro La Fenice, Cologne: Evergreen. ISBN 3-8228-7062-5
La Fenice website, teatrolafenice.it
"Two jailed for La Fenice arson" (BBC News)
"Arsonist of La Fenice released after 16 months", Corriere della Sera
"Teatro la Fenice di Venezia: the long (and shamy) story of a reconstruction", veniceword.com
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Tag: The Incredibles 2
Incredibles 2 comes home
Written by:Danielle SolzmanPosted on: November 1, 2018 November 1, 2018
While Incredibles 2 is currently available through digital means, the physical copies will be available for fans to purchase on November 6, 2018. The bonus features may vary by retailer. There are a few shorts that are exclusively solely to the digital copy. If you purchase the physical media, you can still watch by registering the code on Movies Anywhere. BONUS FEATURES (may vary by retailer) Digital Exclusives: The Coolest Guy in Show Business –…
"Incredibles 2 comes home"
Summer Movie Season: 2018 Winners and Losers
Written by:Danielle SolzmanPosted on: September 2, 2018 September 1, 2018
With Labor Day weekend marking the end of the summer and official Awards Season kickoff, I’m going to take a look at some of this year’s summer winners and losers. The definition of what a summer movie has changed over the years. Instead of the first Friday of May kicking summer off at the box office, the season started at the end of April. Winner: Documentaries With films such as RBG, Won’t You Be My…
"Summer Movie Season: 2018 Winners and Losers"
The Incredibles 2 May Be The Best Pixar Sequel
Written by:Danielle SolzmanPosted on: June 11, 2018 June 8, 2018
Taking place almost immediately after the first film, The Incredibles 2 may just be the best Pixar sequel ever. When The Incredibles first came out in November 2004, the superhero genre was not as saturated as it is now. To bring the family of superheroes back some fourteen years later meant that writer-director Brad Bird had to deliver, what with the current market being what it is. This is a good problem to have. It…
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D23: Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios talk future slate of films
During Friday’s session of the D23 Expo, John Lasseter hosted Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios: The Upcoming Films. It gives fans the opportunity to be among the first people to see never-seen-before footage from their upcoming slate. Lasseter is the chief creative officer of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios. On Friday, he presented never-before-seen footage from Pixar’s upcoming feature film, Coco, and Disney Animation’s Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2. The presentation…
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Questioner: Nicholas Rowe
Monkey for Channel 4, 6 June to 12 September 2003 (15 episodes in 1 series)
16 players in the worlds of TV quizzing and Countdown put up £1,000 of their own money to take part in a single elimination quiz tournament with a £50,000 top prize.
In each round, each competitor would get a clock with sixty seconds on it. Only one would be ticking down at any point, and by getting a question correct theirs would stop and their opponent's clock would start. Whatsmore, each player had three "switches" they could use throughout the game which would automatically switch control to the opponent (although pointlessly they could switch it straight back). When one person's clock runs out, whatever time their opponent had left would be carried forward to the final round. The loser would also have the disadvantage of starting the next round. For that final round contestants were granted thirty seconds and any time they had saved from the other rounds.
The five rounds were general knowledge, words and language, contemporary knowledge (although the differences between this and general knowledge were negligible), numbers and the all-important final combination round which was a general mixture. From the quarter-finals onwards, after the contemporary knowledge round was a keyword round where all the questions had some sort of connection to a word the contestants were notified of twenty-four hours before.
There's quite a lot to like about Grand Slam. The questions are nicely written and there's plenty of variety. The show is tightly produced, and the digital clocks behind the players were striking. It was fairly addictive stuff but the fact that the all-important final rounds were often slightly pointless as one person normally had such a big lead that wouldn't come down given the quality of player. This wasn't helped by the slightly unfair way the person who lost the last round always got the disadvantage of getting the first question in the next round so if both players got the same amount of questions wrong they'd probably lose again creating a cycle it was difficult to break out of. Still, though.
Paul Farrer
The show's first (and only) winner was Clive Spate - a former Countdown champion. He beat Mastermind's youngest champion, Gavin Fuller, in the final.
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Saturday 24 October 2020 (other days)
Saturday of week 29 in Ordinary Time
The Lord’s is the earth and its fullness: come, let us adore him.
Year: A(II). Psalm week: 1. Liturgical Colour: Green.
Saint Antony Mary Claret (1807 - 1870)
He was born at Sallent in Catalonia. After becoming a priest he spent several years preaching to the people throughout Catalonia and also in the Canary Islands. Returning to Spain, he established a missionary order, and founded a great religious library and publishing house in Barcelona which published millions of cheap copies of ancient and modern Catholic works. In 1851 the Pope appointed him Bishop of Santiago de Cuba. The diocese was in a terrible state and everything needed reform and renewal. He reorganised the seminary, enforced clerical discipline, and regularised thousands of marriages. He built a hospital and many schools. This was not done without opposition and he was the subject of fifteen assassination attempts.
Recalled to Spain in 1857 by Queen Isabella II to act as her confessor, he did further great work for the Church. His health began to fail, and he died at the Cistercian abbey at Fontfroide.
Saturday memorials of the Blessed Virgin Mary
‘On Saturdays in Ordinary Time when there is no obligatory memorial, an optional memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary is allowed.
‘Saturdays stand out among those days dedicated to the Virgin Mary. These are designated as memorials of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This memorial derives from Carolingian times (9th century), but the reasons for having chosen Saturday for its observance are unknown. While many explanations of this choice have been advanced, none is completely satisfactory from the point of view of the history of popular piety.
‘Whatever its historical origins may be, today the memorial rightly emphasizes certain values to which contemporary spirituality is more sensitive. It is a remembrance of the maternal example and discipleship of the Blessed Virgin Mary who, strengthened by faith and hope, on that “great Saturday” on which Our Lord lay in the tomb, was the only one of the disciples to hold vigil in expectation of the Lord’s resurrection. It is a prelude and introduction to the celebration of Sunday, the weekly memorial of the Resurrection of Christ. It is a sign that the Virgin Mary is continuously present and operative in the life of the Church.’
Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy (2001), §188
Other saints: St Magloire (-575)
Guernsey, Sark
Magloire was of Irish origin and was educated at Llantwit Major by St Illtyd. Together with his fellow pupil St Sampson he went to Brittany, and became Abbot of one of Sampson’s monasteries at Dol. After some years he retired to Sark, where he founded a monastery and died about 575. His remains were translated first to Léhon and later to Paris at the time of the Viking invasions.
Portsmouth Ordo
Second Reading: St Peter Chrysologus (380 - 450)
Peter was born and died in Imola in northern Italy. He was made bishop of Ravenna, the new capital of the Roman Empire, and was responsible for many of the building works there. The name “Chrysologus” means “golden speech”, and was given to Peter because he was such a gifted preacher; unfortunately, most of his writings have perished, and only a collection of short sermons remains.
Liturgical colour: green
The theological virtue of hope is symbolized by the colour green, just as the burning fire of love is symbolized by red. Green is the colour of growing things, and hope, like them, is always new and always fresh. Liturgically, green is the colour of Ordinary Time, the orderly sequence of weeks through the year, a season in which we are being neither single-mindedly penitent (in purple) nor overwhelmingly joyful (in white).
1 Kings 8:60-61 ©
May all the peoples of the earth come to know that the Lord is God indeed, and that there is no other. May your hearts be wholly with the Lord our God, following his laws and keeping his commandments as at this present day.
Jeremiah 17:9-10 ©
The heart is more devious than any other thing, perverse too: who can pierce its secrets? I, the Lord, search to the heart, I probe the loins, to give each man what his conduct and his actions deserve.
Wisdom 7:27,8:1 ©
Although she is alone, Wisdom can accomplish everything. She deploys her strength from one end of the earth to the other, ordering all things for good.
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Tackling the Challenge project
What is the Tackling the Challenge project?
Tackling the Challenge: Talking Local Men’s Health is a project looking to make a lasting and positive impact on local men’s familiarity and interaction of men’s health issues through the telling of local men’s stories of thriving in times of hardship.
Dealing with personal distress, crisis or challenges are things not typically spoken about by men. Tackling the Challenge aims to tell local men’s stories in the hope of tackling the challenge that is addressing the stigma of men speaking up on about their health. This hope is driven by a common goal that the telling of these stories will encourage other men to open a healthy discussion on men’s health as well as seeking any help and treatment they may require.
Why are we doing it?
Increasing numbers of men are experiencing major stressors in their lives which can have an impact on men’s physical, psychological and social health.
The purpose of this project is to encourage other men to talk more openly about the personal problems they may be dealing with and to seek support. Men respond well to the stories of other men. Your story will be one that other men can relate to, is hopeful and encourages men to share their story and seek appropriate help.
We are looking for men from the Wingecarribee who are willing to have an open discussion and share their story of recovery from personal distress, crisis or challenges. Our team will go through project details with you and if you are happy to, your story will then be taken by our understanding team members from WHAM and South Western Sydney Local Health District’s Mental Wellbeing team.
These stories will then become part of our aim to drive towards better men’s health outcomes through campaign publications in the local media including newspapers, radio, social media and the web.
Although anonymity cannot be guaranteed, to protect your privacy you are able to elect to use a pseudonym for this purpose.
Please use the contact details below if you would like to be involved.
For more information or to get involved contact:
Mental Wellbeing Health Promotion Officer
South Western Sydney Local Health District
Brendan.Bennett@health.nsw.gov.au
Peter Van Dort
Wingecarribee Community Health Centre
Andy’s challenging journey to find himself through resilience and recovery
Tanya Carabez
This October is Mental Health Month, with this year’s theme being Share the Journey.
Andy Davies is one man eager to share his story of resilience and recovery. Working as a mechanic in an industry known for its blokey culture, Andy Davies always thought of himself as the alpha male provider who could down a few schooners and laugh off stressful times without the need to speak about stress or emotions.
So after going through a tough break up, losing a best mate to cancer and working long hours with long travel time, Andy threw himself into the only coping mechanisms he knew – avoiding his home environment with working longer hours. When Andy was at home, he often chose more isolated nights in with alcohol, takeaway and laying on the lounge with the TV.
Getting lost in the resulting fog of anxiety and depression, Andy had started to ‘genuinely not see himself’ and also retreated from friends and family.
Andy’s neighbours noticed this change in behaviour and used their observations to invite Andy over to share their concerns about his wellbeing. Andy was initially held back by the stigma of speaking up about his mental health, responded defensively and left.
Luckily Andy’s neighbours wouldn’t let him leave without Lifeline’s number, and after going home and having a good think about the evening’s conversation, he came to the conclusion that he did need to seek help. After calling Lifeline, Andy started making positive changes in his life and being honest with his vulnerabilities to combat his mental health.
He then arranged an appointment with his GP to speak about getting the help he needed. The GP referred him to a counsellor who gave him practical tools to take control of his mental health as well as pointing out that he was not alone, with one in five Australians experiencing a mental health condition in their lifetime.
As Andy began to rebuild his confidence in the months that followed in his recovery journey, he also started to take more time establishing a healthy routine for himself. This included healthier lifestyle choices such as: cutting down alcohol, eating healthily, exercising regularly, getting out into nature, listening to men’s mental health podcasts, reading and regularly using breathing and muscle relaxation techniques to keep himself in check.
Looking back on it all, Andy now knows that no matter what else, his life has improved due of his experiences and has come to terms with not always having to be strong or independent. He can now recognise the signs when he has been getting off track and uses his experience with his psychologist to take the time to practice self-care. Andy is now in a more supportive work environment and has become a champion for men’s health, mentoring friends and colleagues without feeling the stigma of speaking up about mental health.Andy’s advice to other men is always to ask for help and don’t be too proud to let people know you are struggling.
Andy’s story is a part of the Tackling the Challenge Project, a collection of local men’s stories, highlighting men’s strengths, resilience and recovery. If you have a story to share and would like to be a part of the project, please contact Brendan Bennett on Brendan.Bennett@health.nsw.gov.au or on 9616 4048. Further support can be provided by a GP or health professional. You can also contact Lifeline: 13 11 14 www.lifeline.org.au
From Post Traumatic Stress Disorder to a new lease on life
Tanya Carabez .
It started with the click of a pistol. In the moment that followed which felt like an eternity, Matthew Fredericks* ran for his life. It was later found that a bullet had been fired through a window. Matthew was left shaken, but alive.
As a young father working at a boarding school in an idyllic quiet suburban community in the 1990s, Matthew could never have imagined the long journey of trauma and recovery his life was going to take after the events that unfolded on that fateful day.
Being woken up early one morning by the news that there were intruders heading towards the girls’ boarding house, Matthew had no hesitation in putting himself in the face of danger. Before arriving at the boarding house, Matthew learnt the men were armed. Despite this, he calmly approached the intruders and asked them to leave, to protect the almost 300 student boarders. To Matthew’s surprise, the intruders seemed to accept his instructions to leave and headed towards the exit.
As a strategy to watch the intruders leave and not to irritate them, Matthew bent over to do his shoe up as the intruders walked away. Unfortunately, Matthew’s relief was short lived as he heard a clicking sound coming from the men. He looked up and saw a gun pointed at him. The next thing he knew, Matthew was running for his life.
In the days and months that followed the incident, Matthew became increasingly anxious and stressed at work, which was compounded by distress at his employer’s immediate abuse and criticism of Matthew’s brave intervention. He was also under strict instruction to not disclose any details of the events, forcing Matthew to pretend nothing had happened when asked about the incident by staff and students.
Feeling as though the world was on his shoulders each time he returned to work after having time off, Matthew also began to experience physical health issues and intense panic attacks with stroke-like symptoms. These attacks led to a dramatic drop in blood pressure and loss of consciousness with Matthew regularly passing out up to 20 times a day.
Matthew’s daily fight with his mental and physical health caused him to struggle at a job he was previously very good at, leading him to seek further medical help. He was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD, three years after the incident took place. To add to the stress of his situation, his employer then made him redundant.
At home, things weren’t going well either as Matthew’s wife’s behaviour changed; he experienced abuse and untrue allegations and witnessed his wife’s gambling problems while at home trying to focus on his recovery.
Matthew’s wife later left him, and although this brought some relief after the abuse he’d received, it did lead Matthew to reflect on the blur of the past 10 years and the depression and anxiety he had experienced since the incident. With his children now young adults, Matthew reflected on his struggles alone and started to experience severe depression and suicidal thoughts.
When Matthew was at a loss, he took himself straight to the nearest hospital emergency department and later called LifeLine. After doing this, he spoke of his feelings and experiences with his GP and learned of local services he could connect with. These services included a psychologist for Matthew who could provide appropriate support, to work through the strong thoughts and feelings he was experiencing.
As he worked with multiple psychologists over a period of several years, Matthew then tried to simply live life and adjusted his focus to his abilities and strengths prior to the incident, rather than focusing on the trauma.
After gaining weight over the previous 10 years and then coming off anti-depressants, Matthew decided enough was enough and aimed to get back to his original fitness level prior to the incident. Planning to get himself fit enough to play rugby again, a sport he loved, Matthew initially started with 4 sets of 3 sit-ups and push-ups each day for a week. He then worked to build this up over time, adding an additional repetition each week per set until he got to 200 push-ups, 460 sit-ups and 90 chin-ups each day. As Matthew got fitter, he also added new activities to the mix, including regular walking, running, swimming, cycling, motocross and road racing, sailing and kayaking.
After learning from the psychologist how to identify and catch negative thinking and triggers associated with his trauma, the power of sport opened a new avenue for Matthew’s recovery. With his regained fitness and success in rugby, Matthew found he thought less and less of his previous trauma, anxiety and depression and started to think ‘it’s good to be me’ and his thoughts took a positive turn.
With his new found lease of life, Matthew also started to delve deeper into his recovery and started attending a local men’s support group. It was in this group that he was able to openly share his feelings with other men and seek their help and opinions. He was able to identify the connection between his thoughts and behaviours and successfully started to separate his past experiences from his thinking patterns. Matthew’s involvement and enthusiasm eventually led him to co-facilitate the group. This developed into leading the group some weeks - all to help other men in their recovery.
Reflecting on his journey, Matthew came to the realisation that his wellbeing was far more important than any material item, as he identified how strong and caring he was as a person. He also now knew how crucial it was to prioritise his wellbeing to ensure he got the help he needed. Matthew realised there are better things in life to live for, which has allowed him to let go of his stigma. Matthew is now happily remarried and a great father and friend. He is going on to study psychology and hopes to continue to provide strength to help men living with mental illness.
*Names have been changed to protect identities.
- Matthew’s story is a part of the Tackling the Challenge Project, a collection of local men’s stories, highlighting men’s strengths, resilience and recovery. If you have a story to share and would like to be a part of the project, please contact Brendan Bennett on Brendan.Bennett@health.nsw.gov.au or on 9616 4048. Further support can be provided by a GP or health professional. You can also contact Lifeline: 13 11 14
More to life than a diagnosis
John felt relief when he was told he was unwell and had schizophrenia. There was finally some explanation for the thoughts, feelings and actions he had experienced for so long.
More than ten years previously, John suffered an injury to his shoulder on the job which stopped him from being able to work. Much like other men and women, John’s commitment to work was a big part of his life which brought satisfaction, enjoyment and connection to others but through circumstances beyond his control, this was quickly turned upside down.
Living with chronic pain caused by the injury, John found himself feeling increasingly isolated and lonely in his community with limited opportunities to connect with others. John had a growing sense of feeling unsafe and felt like he was being watched and targeted by his neighbour.
This gradual build-up of pressure gained momentum over two years and John was now feeling overwhelmed, paranoid and no longer comfortable to leave the house. John was at boiling point; feeling further confined and shut off from his community.
John knew he desperately needed to reach out for help but he didn’t know how or who to turn to. It was the first time in his life that John was experiencing something like this. He was feeling trapped and his mental health was at an all-time low. He knew he needed to reach out.
Luckily for John in this moment of vulnerability, his local real estate agent at a routine inspection saw that he needed a helping hand, expressed concern for his mental wellbeing and called an ambulance.
After John was taken to hospital, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. He spent two weeks at an acute hospital-based mental health service that provides a place of safety and treatment for people with acute mental health needs. After the diagnosis, John experienced relief to ‘know that I wasn’t going stupid, that there was something else going on’, he explains.
John was released from hospital with the support of health and community services and he moved to the Southern Highlands to a new living environment with more options for community participation. In the years that followed, John had other visits to mental health services for support and coordination of his goals and needs towards recovery.
Working towards becoming well took hard work but he believes the information provided by his care coordinator and mental health workers was key to the success of his treatment. One therapeutic based course in particular helped John to understand and manage his experiences, to be more present, to reframe and choose new directions to take and to be ‘a lot less paranoid of what’s going on around me’, John explains.
As John navigated his recovery, a major part of this journey was his involvement in the local men’s shed and community gardens - ‘both groups look out for me and they have helped me develop as a person’. At the men’s shed, John was able to meet new people, learn new skills and teach other men woodworking techniques. It is a supportive environment that encourages mateship and members look out for one another. John is also a proud volunteer at the community garden, regularly providing visitor tours, helping with growing orchids and selling plants at the local market.
Looking back on his journey so far, John acknowledges it is better to seek support early and that there is plenty of help out there. He now lives in a welcoming community, with support flowing in both directions, both for John and by John. He wants the community to know, ‘there is life after a mental health diagnosis’.
John’s story is a part of the Tackling the Challenge Project, a collection of local men’s stories, highlighting men’s strengths, resilience and recovery. If you have a story to share and would like to be a part of the project, please contact Brendan Bennett on Brendan.Bennett@health.nsw.gov.au. Further support can be provided by a GP or health professional. You can also contact Lifeline: 13 11 14 www.lifeline.org.au
This week from June 10 -16 is National Men's Health Week, with this year's theme Keeping Boys and Men healthy.
Jarrad shares his story of recovery and strength with other young people.
It was a regular weekend, 13 years ago. Jarrad had played football, washed his car and then set off to visit his sister. On this trip and at just 20 years of age, his life changed forever.
Driving 60km/h over the speed limit, his car veered to the wrong side of the road. Jarrad clipped a power pole and crashed into a tree.
Jarrad was cut free from his tangled car wreck at the crash site and taken by helicopter to Westmead Hospital. He had extensive injuries from the accident and mid-air, he suffered a sudden cardiac arrest. Blood stopped pumping to his brain and lungs.
The young man was placed in an induced coma in hospital and spent two weeks in the High Dependency Ward. His parents were told that if he survived, with the injury to his brain he would need 24/7 care for the rest of his life. Jarrad's parents were heartbroken, prepared for the worst and sought guidance from the hospital chaplain.
But Jarrad beat the odds and survived the riskiest days and weeks. He was transferred to Westmead Hospital's Brain Injury Unit which provides comprehensive specialised rehabilitation services to people, from across NSW, with traumatic brain injuries. Rehabilitation was the next step Jarrad had to take if he wanted to return to living a normal life as soon as possible. He jumped right in. "I dared myself to be the best I could be," he said with humility but with a smile from ear to ear.
Jarrad's journey through recovery was tough both physically and emotionally.
Endless hours and exercises spent re-wiring his brain to perform tasks like walking, eating, reading and writing was a challenging and gruelling slow process.
Jarrad's friends had grown distant. The vulnerability of witnessing one of their mates recovering from a traumatic accident hit close to home, it could have been anyone of them. Jarrad doesn't hold any grudges, "There will always be challenges in life, it comes back to how you deal with them that makes the difference," he said.
His determination to recover through rehabilitation grew stronger from seeing others around him in the Brain Injury Unit achieve small goals over long periods of time. Jarrad's self-belief and motivation was driven internally and supported by professional staff around him.
It enabled him to set his sights further ahead with the mentality of 'every situation that you're faced with, that you enter into, is a situation for you to grow from'.
Jarrad encountered social barriers in the community throughout his rehabilitation.
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Andy's challenging journey to find himself through resilience and recovery
He found that some people stereotype those with brain injuries. He felt like he was being judged and found it hard to meet new people.
Now, Jarrad uses time in the gym to continue working on improving himself, his recovery and to strengthen social connections with groups of people.
He shines when relaying that family was a pivotal support network in his recovery journey.
"People are like trees - the leaves on light branches can snap off and fall away, but the people that stay with you forever are your roots," he said.
At the time of Jarrad's accident, he was studying to become an apprentice plumber. When he had reached a point in his recovery where he could study again, his father drove him two hours across Sydney once a week to TAFE so he could complete his final year with the support of his teachers.
This accomplishment saw Jarrad win a major TAFE award that recognised his efforts, character and study achievements.
Jarrad began telling his story for groups of young people across Sydney as part of the Think Twice program at Westmead Hosptial and for the NSW Brain Injury Speakers Bureau.
Before the accident, Jarrad was quite shy and didn't do any public speaking.
He is the opposite now. Full of energy, and charisma. He works for Mittagong RSL welcoming the community on their arrival using these same skills.
Since the accident, Jarrad's mindset is one of positivity, to 'do the best he can', he explains.
In 2013 Jarrad became the Ambassador of the Drive to Survive® program. He regularly talks to school students and mature aged drivers about what he went through.
He makes no apologies for his hard hitting story, with the hope he will encourage drivers to be safe while driving on the road.
Jarrad also tells his motivational story to corporate clients of his sheer determination and the teamwork that helped him get out of Hospital.
Working with motoring expert Ian Luff has helped Jarrad develop his public speaking ability and refine his talks that are designed to inspire or motivate people in their own lives, to either achieve more or be safer while driving.
Jarrad wants to motivate, encourage and inspire others, especially men. He wants men no matter what they are going through, to reach out and seek help.
"There is nothing to be ashamed of, it just means they may need some extra help to get back to strength," he said
He sums up his journey so far with, 'life is a like a maze with hard turns, and road blocks. You have to accept it and roll with it. I might have limitations, but that won't stop me'.
To have Jarrad inspire your team contact Ian Luff Motivation Australia on 9622 5425.
Jarrad's story is a part of the Tackling the Challenge Project, a collection of local men's stories, highlighting men's strengths, resilience and recovery. If you have a story to share and would like to be a part of the project, please contact Brendan Bennett on Brendan.Bennett@health.nsw.gov.au. Further support can be provided by a GP or health professional. You can also contact Lifeline: 13 11 14 www.lifeline.org.au
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Zach Freitas-Groff
Economics, effective altruism, animal protection, and other musings.
Be Careful About a Stubborn Attachment to Growth
Rob Wiblin interviewed economist Tyler Cowen on the 80,000 hours podcast (“the show about the world’s most pressing problems and how you can use your career to solve them”) and as I would expect, it was a consistently stimulating conversation. Cowen presented on his new book, Stubborn Attachments, which argues that we should place dramatic importance on economic growth because most of humanity’s expected value lies in the future, and economic growth is the most reliable help we can offer future generations. I think the thesis is largely correct, and I'm glad he's making such a strong case for creating an economically prosperous future. I want to contend, though, that growth as conventionally measured does not always do justice to the sort of growth that matters for the long-term future.
Cowen makes a good case for providing future generations with as many resources as possible, but economic growth is a systematically imperfect measure of resources. In particular, it's not possible to cleanly distinguish growth from equity, because the way we value resources in the first place depends on distribution.
This is a bit of a caricature, but as an example if private jets are worth $50 million, and a policy results in the creation of one fewer private jet per year but $30 million more in housing per year, that policy may very well be regarded as an increase in the number of resources in the economy even though it reduces the economic growth rate. This is because the dollars spent on the respective goods are spent by different people who place different values on a dollar. Specifically, it's reasonable to think a low or middle-income person values their last dollar considerably more than a high-income person, and so the $30 million in housing may actually represent more real value. This likely remains true if our goal is to build capital that benefits future generations.
Now as I said this is a caricature, since most transactions will not be as stark as private jets and housing. There are also counterarguments that can be mustered: for example, all else equal, the fact that one person has more money than another should indicate higher productivity, so growth in capital valued by higher-income people may indicate other positive trends.
Still, these arguments do not strike me as sufficient to erase the connection between distribution and how real growth is measured. Note that I am not talking about inflation here: I am talking about how, given the same average value of a dollar, different dollars may still mean different things.
There are of course other issues with measuring growth that Cowen alluded to in the interview, such as environmental externalities or growth in addictive industries like tobacco, where people presumably act against their better instincts.
The distribution issue, though, is subtle and complex. Happily, most well-designed policies to improve equity (such as basic income or education investments, though I now have doubts about this) do seem improve growth, although I may have motivated reasoning here. That said, the argument above suggests that these policies are likely undervalued from a growth perspective. Furthermore, even if a policy does not have a positive effect on growth, it may actually be growing the number of things available to future generations in a real way if the dollar price of its costs is overvalued and the dollar price of its benefits is undervalued.
One response to this issue is to say that conventional measures of growth are imperfect but are a good approximation. That's true, but if we are using a measure as an approximation, then that implies we should use it differently from if we treat it as a good measure in itself.
As a final note, an alternative measure to GDP is the inequality-adjusted human development index. This is somewhat clunky, and as with growth, there's no perfect measure of inequality. Perhaps the best approach is to look at multiple measures and to avoid being inflexibly (shall we say stubbornly?) attached to any particular one.
distribution economics effective altruism equity growth inequality Marginal Revolution Stubborn Attachments Tyler Cowen
What I Learned from a Year Spent Studying How to Get Policymakers to Use Evidence
Source: http://cognitive-edge.com/blog/on-evidence/ The past year I was a senior research analyst at Northwestern University's Global Poverty Research Lab on a study of evidence-based policy. Specifically, our goal was to work on a question often on researchers' minds: how can I get my ideas acted upon? To do this, I dug through a number of bodies of evidence on how science influences policy. One area I looked at is what is called "implementation science" in medicine, which looks at how to get doctors, nurses, and hospital administrators to adopt evidence-based practice. Another was a series of papers by social scientist Carol Weiss and her students on how policymakers in government agencies claim to use evidence. There is also a small literature on how to implement evidence-based policy in public schools, and a little work on policymaker numeracy. I've included a bibliography below that should be helpful for anyone interested in this topic. Most of my yea
How Much Do Wild Animals Suffer? A Foundational Result on the Question is Wrong.
NOTE: I would like to clarify that the post below and the published paper show that a result from 1995 does not hold, but they do NOT make the case for the 1995 model being correct. There are many reasons the models in both papers are likely to be deeply flawed: path dependency, dynamic ecosystems, philosophical problems with the definition of suffering and enjoyment, and so on. The primary point here is to treat the 1995 result and other work on wild animal suffering with caution. In 1995, Yew-Kwang Ng wrote a groundbreaking paper, "Towards welfare biology: Evolutionary economics of animal consciousness and suffering" that explored the novel question of the wellbeing of wild animals as distinct from the conservation of species. As perceptive as it was innovative, the paper proposed a number of axioms about evolution and consciousness to study which animals are sentient, what their experiences are, and what might be done about it. Among the many results in the paper wa
Do Trump rallies spread COVID-19?
It looks like the answer is yes. It's been a while, but I'm back, and with a new paper with Doug Bernheim, Nina Buchmann, and Seba Otero : We investigate the effects of large group meetings on the spread of COVID-19 by studying the impact of eighteen Trump campaign rallies. To capture the effects of subsequent contagion within the pertinent communities, our analysis encompasses up to ten post-rally weeks for each event. Our method is based on a collection of regression models, one for each event, that capture the relationships between post-event outcomes and pre-event characteristics, including demographics and the trajectory of COVID-19 cases, in similar counties. We explore a total of 24 procedures for identifying sets of matched counties. For the vast majority of these variants, our estimate of the average treatment effect across the eighteen events implies that they increased subsequent confirmed cases of COVID-19 by more than 250 per 100,000 residents. Extrapolating this f
I am a PhD student in economics at Stanford University and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. I am interested in global priorities research—research on the most effective ways to do good with limited resources—and a Global Priorities Fellow with the Forethought Foundation. I am an advocate and a follower of the effective altruism movement (www.effective-altruism.com). I was previously a Senior Research Analyst at the Global Poverty Research Lab at Northwestern University's Buffett Institute, where I studied the implementation of evidence-based policies in education and criminal justice. I am also the chair of the Animal Advocacy Research Fund Oversight Committee, which distributes roughly $300,000 annually to fund research on effective advocacy for animals. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/zdgroff.
Animal Charity Evaluators
Better Angels of Our Nature
effective altruism
Enlightenment Now
existential risk
expected utility
longtermism
pretrial
Stubborn Attachments
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing
welfare biology
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History Museum Billed Town For Employees’ Time; Marpe “Surprised” And “Concerned”
In late 2018, organizers announced the end of Westport’s First Night celebration.
Recognizing a need for family-friendly New Year’s Eve activities, the Westport Historical Society filled the breach. In just a matter of days, executive director Ramin Ganeshram and her staff organized “First Light.”
Performances, horse-drawn carriage rides, face painting, a digital caricaturist, a henna artist, food trucks, a bonfire — it was all there. And (despite the rain), it was greatly appreciated.
A true New England horse-drawn sleigh ride.
This year, the Avery Place institution — now called the Westport Museum for History & Culture — continued the new tradition.
This year’s First Light included horse-drawn carriages, a live band, short films, tarot reader, henna tattoos, teen game night at Toquet Hall, stargazing with the Westport Astronomy Club, ballroom dance instruction — and that warm bonfire.
As with previous First Nights, and last year’s First Light, attendees wore buttons for admittance to all events. They cost $10 online, $15 on site.
Ganeshram gave credit to the town of Westport, for helping support the event.
That support includes police officers, fire fighters, logistics — and funding.
On December 11, Ganeshram asked for town assistance “from the fund formerly attributed to the First Night Celebrations.” She detailed “projected costs as they exist to-date for the First Light Festival on New Year’s Eve.”
The organization’s spreadsheet showed that the horse and carriage would cost $1,300. The band was $250, the tarot reader $200; Branson Hall rental $200; marketing materials and buttons $100.
There is also a line item that reads “(1630-2130 hours x at holiday rate (#82.50 per),” at a total cost of $1,213.
In addition, the Museum requested that the town reimburse half the cost of the salaries of 5 Museum employees. They were projected to spend anywhere from 30 to 80 hours each on First Light activities, at fees ranging from $11 to $25 per hour.
The employees work in several areas for the Museum, including programs, operations, marketing, administration and administrative support.
Four of the employees would be reimbursed by the town for half of their hours worked: $750, $600, $600 and $500. The administrative support staffer was projected to work 30 hours at $11 per hour, for a total of $330. The Museum requested $330 from the town for her salary, but confusingly also said they would contribute $330 to it.
The total reimbursement request to the town for Museum employees’ salaries was $2,780.
Executive director Ramin Ganeshram was listed as spending 20 hours on First Light, at $50 an hour. Her $1,000 was covered fully by the Museum.
The bonfire at Veterans Green. (Photo/Dan Woog)
The invoice was sent December 26, and received at Town Hall 2 days later. A check for the full amount requested — $5,943 — was issued to Westport Historical Society, Inc. on December 30.
I asked 1st Selectman Jim Marpe about the use of town funds to cover salaries of Museum employees. He responded:
For nearly 30 years, the Town of Westport co-sponsored “First Night,” a family-friendly, substance-free New Year’s Eve celebration that offered an array of musical and variety performers, kid-oriented activities, bonfires, carriage rides and even fireworks.
This event took place through a combination of volunteers under the volunteer leadership of enthusiastic residents such as Barbara Pearson-Rac and her husband Frank, the late Bill Meyer and Allen Bomes, donations from local business and fund-raising organizations, and also town funding in the range of $7,000. First Night also sold admission badges to help fund their budget, and the town provided some of the venues for various events.
The First Night concept was very popular around Connecticut and New England for many years, but in recent years, Westport became one of the few towns to offer this NewYear’s Eve option. Unfortunately, it became virtually impossible to stage a fireworks show in the downtown area, and rising costs and the dwindling number of volunteers began to limit the variety of entertainment options.
Fireworks were once a First Night tradition.
While the Town budgeted $7,000 to support the 2018 to 2019 New Year’s Eve First Night (last year), it became clear in the early fall that we would not be able to conduct the First Night event as we had in prior years.
The then-named Westport Historical Society stepped forward and offered to produce a mini-version of First Night called First Light. The town approved the use of a small portion of Veterans Green for a bonfire, and provided financial support to underwrite the carriage ride and other out-of-pocket costs for performers as well as Fire Department oversight of the bonfire activity. It was (and is) our belief that a substance-free, family alternative to celebrate the new year is a good thing for Westport and its residents of all ages.
In anticipation of this year’s (2019 to 2020) New Year’s Eve, we budgeted another $6,000 in case the now-named Westport Museum of History & Culture decided to conduct another First Light event, which in fact they did with some expansion of their offerings and venues.
Face painting was a popular activity at this year’s First Light celebration. (Photo/Dan Woog)
It was always the intention of that money to cover the costs of outside services such as the carriage rides, musicians and other performers and marketing material which the director of finance and I approved.
I was surprised to learn in the past week that the Town’s support was also used to cover a portion of the salaries of several Museum employees.
It was never our intent to subsidize the costs of non-town employees, and I’m concerned about the potential inappropriate use of town funds for this purpose.
I have asked our director of finance to look into this matter immediately, and to determine the appropriate course of action regarding this payment.
As I noted earlier, I believe that events like First Night and First Light are good for our community and add to our reputation as a family friendly community, particularly when they are supported by volunteers and non-for-profit organizations such as the Museum.
The town has always been willing to consider financial or in-kind support of specific services for events that serve the whole community, but it has never been our intention to subsidize the salaries of individuals who work for those organizations.
This entry was posted in Categories, Local politics, Organizations, People and tagged 1st Selectman Jim Marpe, First Light Festival, First Night Westport Weston, Westport Historical Society, Westport Museum for History & Culture. Bookmark the permalink.
34 responses to “History Museum Billed Town For Employees’ Time; Marpe “Surprised” And “Concerned””
Eric William Buchroeder SHS ‘70 | January 22, 2020 at 8:43 am |
Don’t be surprised to wake up one of these days to find the Wheeler House featured as the “Teardown Of The Day” in WestportNow.
Rich Stein | January 22, 2020 at 9:04 am |
When are the resignations going to be tendered… this is now beyond general inappropriate.. action not reaction…
First Night First Light whatever you call it really isn’t an appropriate use of a historical archive’s funds. However laudable and enjoyable it may be, it’s a recreational activity and should be funded as such. This is an example of the “mission creep” that has resulted in the monstrosity that is the WMHS.
Nell Barrett | January 22, 2020 at 9:34 am |
I have been following the 06880 posts and comments re the Westport Museum, and now am compelled to say there there is a thread of viciousness here that disturbs me. This is a small town. People live here, raise their kids here, work here. Words hurt. Reputations can be damaged, feelings hurt in the court of public opinion when we may not know all the facts or both sides of the story. There are always two sides to every coin. I would hope that in these polarizing times we can try to work together to resolve these issues.
Peter Gambaccini | January 22, 2020 at 10:24 am |
The other of the two sides is quite welcome to speak its piece.
Eric William Buchroeder SHS ‘70 | January 22, 2020 at 10:26 am |
Please don’t confuse “viciousness” with extreme pain/anguish/surprise/betrayal that has been expressed by, and on behalf of, its founding patrons.
A community treasure is being destroyed deliberately and without regard for the consequences.I don’t live in Westport any more but have long admired the way the WHS has honored the town and its proud history. Until now.
William Strittmatter | January 22, 2020 at 9:42 am |
Hey. Look at that. It is possible to put together a thoughtful public communication.
The WHS should take note. It might even reduce the temperature of the discussion. Of course, if they did that, they might just bill Dan for it.
Avi Kaner | January 22, 2020 at 9:43 am |
Impressive that the town caught this oversight so quickly. With a $210 million a year budget, this amounts to .000028. There are very few towns in the United States that are run as well as Jim Marpe and our elected volunteers run Westport. It’s also important to continue to support this wonderful New Year’s event, to ensure it continues to delight Westport families and enhances our community for years to come.
Chris Grimm | January 22, 2020 at 3:57 pm |
It doesn’t sound as if Town caught anything until Dan asked Jim about it.
Rebecca Wolin | January 22, 2020 at 9:53 am |
The comment that Avi made that he was glad the town caught it so fast – my question would be how was this invoice even approved in the first place to be paid. Is it the policy in Westport to just pay invoices and look at the detail afterwards or not at all. Just a thought
Jay Walshon | January 22, 2020 at 10:27 am |
Rebecca, when the Director of Finance paid an invoice for $260,000.00 more than the P&R Commission promised the public it would spend on the South Beach restroom & walkway project (by a spending limit resolution) he stated that he doesn’t investigate the validity of the invoices that he is given – he only pays what he is told to pay.
That comment was witnessed by two Town residents.
Perhaps that is why this happened. The question is who told him to pay it.
Deb Poulley | January 22, 2020 at 10:03 am |
I agree with Nell. For Heaven’s sakes this is now starting to become simple bullying. Yes, the WHS made mistakes and upset certain parties and I am sure that they will spend most of the first half of this year making amends and trying to soothe ruffled feathers. We all get the gist, now let’s leave it alone.
Jan Frost | January 22, 2020 at 10:16 am |
Why drink the kool aid? This is an undeniable problem that will continue to grow if nothing is done…
Absolutely support 1st Night/Light and be thankful for it. But please, for my benefit, articulate how/why it needs to be sponsored by an organization that evidently is so pressed for funds that it is seeking outside sources that (and this is not meant to be “vicious”) have nothing to offer the WMHC but money. I don’t think any of the “protesters” would have any issues with the Offutt money if it weren’t coordinated with the efforts of leadership team that probably thinks Staples High School was endowed by an office supply company headquartered in Framingham MA.
Morley Boyd | January 22, 2020 at 11:09 am |
For better or worse, past controversies of this nature in CT seemed to have ended with the opinion that “the provision of public entertainment” is “not considered a proper role of government”. That being said, I think the question could be asked whether some other entity besides the Town could step in to help support this New Years event going forward.
As an aside, I recall that the town’s policy on the use of town-owned property (such as Veterans Green) states that the net proceeds of any event must go to charity. If there actually were any net proceeds in this case, where did they go?
Is it possible to have/insist that they become a non-profit so there is more transparency?
Would this help?
Jack Whittle | January 22, 2020 at 5:06 pm |
Jan – they are (or purport to be) a non-profit charitable organization; actually the WHS was and still is (see my post below)
Fred Cantor | January 22, 2020 at 12:00 pm |
In response to Nell and Deb: what Dan Woog has done via his series of stories has been an example of local journalism at its best—and I’m not saying this because Dan and I are longtime friends going back to our Staples soccer days.
The WMHC has had ample opportunity to speak to him since the first story appeared but has chosen not to. Dan, as I noted in a prior comment, has frequently publicized and promoted the WMHC and former WHS—including partnering with them just over a year ago in doing a series on vintage items—just as he has helped publicize the happenings connected to other local cultural groups.
So why the WMHC would now, in essence, avoid dealing with Dan and fail to provide whatever explanations they might have is something I don’t understand.
I feel that Dan’s stories have legitimately exposed some important issues. I was a member until recently—my membership expired in December and I hadn’t gotten around to renewing—and I had zero knowledge of the problems that were happening behind the scenes.
And I have made efforts to be supportive of the new administration. For example, I submitted material online from California for the migrants and immigrants exhibit, which Ramin was appreciative of and, to the best of my knowledge, the material was included in the exhibit.
I also offered a fundraising idea to Ramin this past summer re the WMHC jointly doing a possible book with the Library using the library‘s POD machine and, again, Ramin was appreciative.
So it’s not as if I have been in opposition to the new administration; to the contrary, I was only hoping they would succeed.
But now having been enlightened by Dan’s series of stories—including the guest pieces by former WHS officers—it is clear that Ramin and Sara have work to do to address certain issues; and I think an excellent starting point would be figuring out a solution to the renaming of the Sheffer Gallery (such as possibly a joint naming of the space).
John F. Suggs | January 22, 2020 at 12:34 pm |
Fred I completely agree with you both about Dan and that this series on the WHS is an example of local journalism at its best. I hope that Dan is recognized for it when it comes time for this years awards for excellence in journalism in “hyperlocal” news coverage by the CT Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. This series deserves it. Good job Dan and keep it up!
Dan Woog | January 22, 2020 at 12:54 pm |
Thanks, John and Fred, for your kind comments. This is a story about an important Westport institution, one that has touched (and continues to touch) nearly every Westporter. It is about this town’s past, present and future. I appreciate the help of many readers — they are integral to my posts. And, of course, the Westport Museum for History & Culture is welcome to weigh in at any time, via public posts or private email (dwoog@optonline.net). I have not heard from anyone there — not even off the record — since my first story nine days ago.
Mark Potts | January 23, 2020 at 4:13 am |
As a longtime journalist, I’ll add to the kudos for Dan’s exemplary work on this story, which indeed is local journalism at its finest—especially when the WHS scandal seems to be being ignored by.other local media (and when will The New York Times weigh in?). Please keep digging on this important Westport story.
A little more info about the Westport Historical Society, doing business as the Westport Museum for History and Culture –
You read that right – when I was trying to pull up the WM’s 501(c)(3) return (assuming they were such a charitable org) I discovered they were not registered as such; I also saw that the Westport Historical Society remains registered as a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization (but THEY have not filed their Form 990 for 2018 yet, which makes it overdue).
I also could not find the “Westport Museum for History and Culture” on the State of CT’s business entity list (which is searchable). I do see the “Westport Historical Society Inc.” remains an active corporation, although their 2019 filing was due in March, 2019 and is overdue. Given this, on a hunch, I checked the “doing business as” filings with the Town Clerk, and see a d/b/a registered for “Westport Historical Society doing business as the Westport Museum for History and Culture” on August 21, 2019.
So, the accurate way to describe this organization is the “Westport Historical Society Inc. doing business as the Westport Museum for History and Culture”
I’m not saying there is anything wrong with that per se.
But it means the corporate (legal) entity known as “Westport Historical Society” still very much exists, and regardless of what the WM website says, the officers of THAT entity, and BoD of that entity, are still very much in power. It could be the case that the names listed on the WM site accurately reflects the current officers and legitimately elected BoD of the WHS. I can only go by what I see reported on the CT legal entity register as of their last filed report in 2018: Ramin Ganeshram – exec director, Robert Mitchell – president, Patricia Wentworth – treasurer, Jay Dirnberger – Chair of Finance Committee. Also, the by-laws of the WHS would still control, from a corporate governance standpoint. They are the boss; the organization known as the WM, formed as a d/b/a, is not the one in power.
It might be the case that the WM is taking steps to rename the WHS and preserve their status as a 501(c)(3). But their change of direction – to a museum and cultural org – will probably mean a new 501(c)(3) filing is required. They do seem to be behind on their 2018 federal tax return and their March 2019 corporate filings with CT.
As one who has set up and run 501(c)(3)s, I can also point out that the WM’s website does not contain the proper “we are a 501(c)(3)” legend anywhere, which is out of compliance for such orgs. I suspect that, if you were to make a charitable contribution to the WM and got the (required) 501(c)(3) receipt, it would refer to the WHS and their tax ID number.
Jan Frost | January 22, 2020 at 1:54 pm |
Thank you Jack! That is EXACTLY where I was going with my comment-
since I have not lived in Westport for several years, I was able to take a step back and observe… great research…
Now everyone has a just cause to ACT!!
It looks like it is time to take the bull by the horns and take your museum back. There appears to be many people that would happily get involved in the well being and healthy future of the museum. Sometime it takes something glaring such as this is in order to get involved and look closely at who is at the helm.
Great job everyone! I wish I still lived there. I believe that you have all turned a corner with this observation!!
Josh Stein | January 22, 2020 at 3:15 pm |
The question is who is going to take charge? Right now we probably have a bystander effect with lots of people upset and seeing something wrong but no one stepping up to the plate as far as I have read.
Juliana Sloane Fulbright | January 22, 2020 at 2:00 pm |
Something is very wrong here. It sounds like a scam that people are doing all over now. We have to somehow get our museum back! I can’t believe she charged almost $6,000 for a few hours!!
Michael Pettee | January 22, 2020 at 3:57 pm |
I grew up in Westport, and I now live in Minnesota. I have an agency here which produces events and related communications. I also have with long experience with non-profit organizations, and was Managing Director of a performing arts organization for many years, and also including organizations which have gone through significant internal and external changes. With that background, I have been trying to decipher this WHS puzzle absent any response from the staff or the organization other than what is on their website, blog and Instagram posts. I will assume the intentions of staff and board are honorable. But still, there is no way a new strategic plan would suggest turning the organization’s back on its legacy base.
There has been almost 100% turnover in the board of directors over the last year, and its impressive list of advisory board (of which Dan was an honorary member) is no longer even listed. Dan, were you all dismissed? Did much of the board resign? As David pointed out yesterday, the board does have a fiduciary responsibility to the state and community. What about the staff? I could imagine there might be something of a “we are defending from the bunker” attitude from the 7-8 staff members. Or have they resigned? Is the entire staff forbidden from commenting?
Clearly, some pieces are missing from this puzzle.
PS: Nothing in the outline of First Night expenses is seems unreasonable to me, as long as it aligns with the town’s initial purchase plan or agreement. The noted rates and amounts are on the low end of industry standards. And also, if I am understanding the roles correctly, a “payables department” should not be expected to investigate every invoice, rather their job is to efficiently process payments. The responsibility for due diligence would rightly go to the person approving and accepting the provided materials or services to be sure they are aligned with the initial purchase plan or agreement, and before it is forwarded for payment. Example: the payables department can not be expected to ensure that the snowplow the town purchased is as-ordered and aligned with its purchase agreement.
Dan Woog | January 22, 2020 at 4:39 pm |
I have no idea if I was dismissed. I was on the advisory board; then I was off; then the entire advisory board list disappeared from the website. The board has changed significantly too, but no one seems to be talking. That’s all I know on that front!
Eric William Buchroeder SHS ‘70 | January 22, 2020 at 5:35 pm |
Dan, whether dismissed, forgotten, misplaced or ignored I can’t for the life of me figure out what they were trying to do with you, the Sheffers or any of the long list of WHS patrons. You may be the most influential wordsmith/author/journalist in Westport, treated fairly you could have been their best “face man” of what they’re trying to do (whatever that is). They are lucky that you haven’t a vindictive bone in your body.
Jay Walshon MD | January 22, 2020 at 6:54 pm |
It is unfortunate that in his statement Mr. Marpe feigned surprise, dismay and disapproval that public funds were utilized to compensate Museum employees.
For anyone interested in the facts, an examination of the invoice that includes the $2,780 payments to the Westport Museum for History and Culture employees using Town taxpayer funds clearly documents that these payments were known and approved by both Mr. Marpe and Finance Director Gary Conrad on December 20th.
In addition, a December 20 email to both Mr. Conrad and Mr. Marpe from the Museum ditector clearly delineated a request for Town funds to compensate Museum employees – including the approval to double pay Catherine Graham.
Chris Van Genderen | January 24, 2020 at 12:27 pm |
Thanks for the sound input.
Susan Eastman | January 22, 2020 at 7:11 pm |
The solicitation letter the Westport Museum sent in November 2019 states “Westport Museum for History and Culture is a nonprofit organization as described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.” I have not yet received my receipt, but am interested to see what it will say when it comes.
please report, but you know my prediction. btw, you need their tax ID # to properly take the deduction on your return
Bob Enray | January 24, 2020 at 4:18 pm |
I think Marpe may be unclear on how a “Non-for-profit” business operates. It’s not a charity, and its employees don’t work for free. I can see how a miscommunication might happen, and how it could be assumed that the WHS would consider this sort of activity within its mission and not charge back employees’ time. But in this context, “non-for-profit organizations” are more like other town businesses than like individual volunteers.
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If You’ve Got Nothing On Tonight – Clive Bruce
Clive Bruce (real name Clive Bergman) was born in Cape Town and is the step son of Virginia Lee. He started out his music career doing mostly backing vocals and sang on some of the old Springbok Hits albums. He was also the voice of Sarel Seemonster on Wielie Walie at one point. His solo career really took off in 1971 when ‘Sally Sunshine’ entered the SA Top 20 in July of that year and reached number 11. It was nearly a decade later that he hit the charts again with ‘If You’ve Got Nothing On Tonight’, which first charted in February of 1981 and peaked at number 16.
The song is similar to the Bellamy Brothers’ ‘If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me’ not only because of the innuendo in the lyrics (Bruce’s song goes, ‘If You’ve Got Nothing On Tonight, I’d Sure Like To See You.’) but it is also an easy listening country song. Bruce continues to record and released an album of covers in 2006 and a greatest hits compilation in 2008.
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Martin on December 15, 2013 at 10:18 pm said:
I do appreciate the effort that you go to in doing these write ups. If you could include short audio clips of some these older songs, just to remind us of how they sounded, it might give extra sales to some of these artists and their families – a “buy now” button would be a fantastic addition, and perhaps even help fund the write ups. But I guess in the complex and strange world that is modern IP, it’s not something that you can easily negotiate :(
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It’s Bird, it’s a Plane, no, it’s Gardyman!…
Credit: David Banks/USA TODAY Sports
It is frustrating when the Yankees lose games they should have won so there was satisfaction with Friday afternoon’s stunning victory over the Chicago Cubs, 3-2, thanks to a ninth inning two-out, two-strike three-run home run by Brett Gardner. The Yankees had their chances early in the game, but seemed to self-sabotage every attempt to push runs across the plate.
The Yankees were fortunate that Cubs closer Wade Davis was unavailable after pitching in the three preceding games for the Northsiders. Davis is currently 2-0 with an 0.00 ERA in 13 1/3 innings. He has 15 strikeouts and has only given up four hits and walks. His WHIP is a paltry 0.60. I’ve read a few Chicago articles that think the Cubs upgraded the closing position with the addition of Wade Davis (a bit of a slam against Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman). But with Davis unavailable, the Cubs were forced to turn to former closer, Hector Rondon, who had been displaced last July when Chapman arrived.
Honestly, it didn’t feel like Gardner was going to emerge from the day victorious. After he reached two strikes, he fouled off a couple of Rondon pitches to stay alive. It felt like Rondon just needed to put one in the outside corner to earn his first save of the season. Instead, he left the pitch in the exact spot that he shouldn’t have…low and inside. That’s all Gardner needed to deposit the pitch in the outfield bleachers.
The Gardner home run put the game in the hands of former Cubs closer Aroldis Chapman. It wasn’t pretty when the first batter, Cubs shortstop Addison Russell, reached second base as a result of a Chase Headley error. With the game-tying run on second and no outs, Chapman retired the next three batters which included a swinging third strike by Cubs powerful second baseman Javier Baez to end the game.
Hats off to Michael Pineda. I know that he gave up two home runs, but he could’ve folded like a cheap suit as he has in years past. He held the Cubs to only two runs on the solo homers and only three hits overall in six innings of work. He struck out six and walked only one. It was a quality start and there’s no way the Yankees could have staged the improbable comeback if not for Pineda’s efforts.
The win moved the Yankees to 18-9. They precariously remain in sole possession of first place in the AL East by a half-game over the Baltimore Orioles. The Orioles beat the Chicago White Sox 4-2 despite starting pitcher Wade Miley being hit by successive line drives 12 pitches into the game that forced his departure.
Aroldis Chapman received his World Series ring prior to the start of the game. It was good to see him receive recognition for his contributions for helping to bring the first World Series championship to Chicago for the Cubs in 108 years. People tend to remember the game-tying home run that a weary Chapman gave up in Game 7 but the Cubs would not have been in the World Series if not for #54.
Credit: Tannen Maury/EPA
Adam Warren also received his World Series ring as a member of the 2016 Cubs, but he chose a private ceremony (he wanted the spotlight on the Yankees closer since Chapman was part of the post-season team that won the World Series plus he didn't feel right wearing Yankees gear with a Cubs ring...'Attaboy, Adam!).
It was also a fun day for former Cubs shortstop/second baseman Starlin Castro. He received a standing ovation as the Cubs played his walk-up music when he came up to bat for the first time. There’s no doubt it was an emotional day for Castro who remains appreciative of the Cubs for giving him his first opportunity in Major League Baseball.
Gary Sanchez was activated before the game and went 0-for-4 with a strikeout. Kyle Higashioka was optioned to Triple-A Scranton/WilkesBarre after failing to record in a hit in 18 at-bats. I had really been hoping that he could have gotten that first one out of the way before heading back to Eastern Pennsylvania.
Have a great Saturday! Sounds like it may be a cold, windy night in Chicago. Hopefully it will be a memorable evening for the Baby Bombers in the Windy City.
Posted by Scott Fiedler at 10:37 AM
Labels: Adam Warren, Aroldis Chapman, Brett Gardner, Chicago, Cubs, Gary Sanchez, Hector Rondon, Michael Pineda, MLB, Starlin Castro, Wade Davis, World Series, Yankees
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Home / celebs / korean variety show / malaymail / news / Running Man / tour / variety show / “Running Man” cast to go on their very last Asia tour
“Running Man” cast to go on their very last Asia tour
Unknown Thursday, January 19, 2017 celebs, korean variety show, malaymail, news, Running Man, tour, variety show
The cast of popular South Korean variety show “Running Man” will be going on their very last tour to meet their fans in Asia!
The variety show which has been running for the last seven years will feature cast members Yoo Jae-suk, Haha, Ji Suk-jin, Lee Kwang-soo, Kim Jong-kook and Song Ji-hyo, in the Asia tour.
The tour will last until the end of March and will include countries and cities such as Malaysia, Taipei, Macao, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Australia and China.
According to Discover KL, Taiwan and Macao will be the first two stops of the tour while Malaysia will be one of the final stops.
“Running Man” is a reality-variety show where the MCs and guests complete missions at a landmark to win the race.
The show is very popular among Hallyu fans, having been ‘fansubbed’ into some languages by international audiences, such as English, Spanish, French, Italian, Thai, Vietnamese, and more.
The show has made it to the list of Business Insider's 20 TV Shows of 2016, at number 9.
More details of the “Running Man Fan Meeting 2017” tour will be announced soon, so stay tuned!
(Photo source: wikimedia.org)
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75 years ago-Japan formally surrenders
Aside September 2, 2020 abn397 Surrender of Japan, V-J day, World War 2 Surrender by Japan, V-J day, World War 2
While Japan had announced its surrender on August 15, a more formal process occurred on September 2, 1945.
On September 2, 1945, formal surrender occurred aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. While the UK and Commonwealth countries (but not India) consider August 15 to be V-J Day, the US commemorates this on September 2. China, Philippines and Taiwan are the last to commemorate this on September 3.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_over_Japan_Day
75 years ago-endgame in Europe-1
April 30, 2020 abn397 Admiral Donitz, Adolf Hitler, Battle of Berlin, Eva Braun, Joseph Goebbels, Magda Goebbels, Mussolini, World War 2 Admiral Donitz, Adolf Hitler, Battle of Berlin, Benito Mussolini, Eva Braun, Joseph Goebbels, Magda Goebbels, World War 2
The Corona Virus pandemic may well be the worst disaster since World War 2. So it is useful to look back 75 years to the closing stages of the war in Europe.
28/04/1945: Mussolini, his mistress and other Fascist leaders killed by Italian partisans.
Hitler marries Eva Braun.
29/04: Hitler writes his will, designating Admiral Karl Donitz as his successor.
30/04: Hitler and Eva commit suicide.
01/05: Goebbels and his wife commit suicide. They also murder their 6 children.
02/05: The Battle of Berlin ends in a decisive Soviet victory.
04/05: The bulk of German armies surrender at Luneberg Heath in the Netherlands.
World War 2 snippets-Hitler’s personal train
December 4, 2019 December 4, 2019 abn397 "Amerika" train, Adolf Hitler, Hitler's personal train, World War 2 "Amerika" train, Adolf Hitler, Hitler's personal train, World War 2
A relatively unknown story from World War 2.
The basic information is here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BChrersonderzug\
More details here, including a 50-minute documentary:
https://www.wearethemighty.com/history/hitler-train-amerika-ww2?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1
75 years ago-the Fugo bombs
November 2, 2019 abn397 Balloons in warfare, Fugo bomb, Fugu fish, Obscure Facts Balloons in warfare, Fugo bomb, Fugu fish, obscure facts, World War 2
There were many things happening in World War 2 75 years ago. One of them was Japan launching their little-known weapon against the US. This started on Nov 3, 1944.
You may have heard of Japan’s Fugu fish:
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18065372
But the Fugo bomb was something else.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_balloon_bomb
This was then the weapon with the longest range, as they successfully crossed the Pacific to land on the west coast of the US.
And they were the only example of an enemy attack causing fatalities on the US mainland during wartime. 9/11 was not a wartime attack.
WW2 snippets-Das Panzerlied
October 4, 2019 October 5, 2019 abn397 "Battle of the Bulge" 1965 film, German military music, German tank corps, Hans-Christian Blech, Panzerlied, Robert Shaw, World War 2 "Battle of the Bulge" 1965 film, Das Panzerlied, German military music, German tank corps, Hans-Christian Blech, Robert Shaw, World War 2
World War 2 inspired much patriotic art in the forms of films and music. Germany and the Nazi cultural and propaganda corps specialized in this, with films such as “Triumph of the Will” and “Olympia 1936” which are still being studied as masterpieces of propaganda.
Then there was the German anthem which started with “Deutschland uber alles, uber alles in der Welt” which naturally sounded ominous to other countries. And there were outright Nazi songs such as the Horst Wessel song.
Naturally, the anthem (for West Germany and now united Germany) was changed to something more innocuous and other songs were banned (along with “Mein Kampf”).
There were also some purely military songs which also earned a bad name, even though they were not really propagandist or supporting the Nazi ideology. Like this song of the tank-men of the Wehrmacht Das Panzerlied (or “The Tank Song”).
This shows the translation of the full song. The full form is not well known now:
A nice catchy tune, one must admit. One cannot really find fault with the lyrics, except when it gets fanatical (from 2:45 onward, “And if we are abandoned….”).
This became better known in the English-speaking countries through the 1965 Hollywood film “Battle of the Bulge”:
Here, it is the first stanza repeated 4 times rather than the entire song.
Note the commander played by the versatile Robert Shaw, whose last major role was that of the veteran shark-hunter in “Jaws”. And the orderly Hans-Christian Blech, one of many German actors who specialized in roles of soldiers and junior officers (as in “The Longest Day”).
As years passed, it was still sung by the West German and later united German army (besides versions in other languages in countries such as Italy and Chile). Recently the defence ministry had it deleted from the official song book although it was not banned.
It seems that a number of clips of this song have been removed from Youtube in recent months as it had become popular among Nazi supporters.
And finally, here the instrumental version by a Japanese orchestra a few years ago. The Youtube comments have a number of snide remarks about the Axis coming together again:
Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzerlied
More on concentration camps
September 13, 2019 September 13, 2019 abn397 "Lord Kitchener", Arbeit Macht Frei, Boer War, British concentration camps, Concentration camps, Detention camps in India, Nazi Concentration camps, World War 2 "Lord Kitchener", Arbeit Macht Frei, Auschwitz, Boer War, British concentration camps, Concentration camps, Detention camps in India, Hermann Goering, Nazi Concentration camps, World War 2
There is now talk of large-scale detention camps in various parts of India, like here:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/assam-india-detention-camps-bangladesh-nrc-list-a9099251.html
which is uncomfortably close to places like this:
This sign was not only at Auschwitz, but at several similar camps.
And who invented the idea of concentration camps? Not Hitler and his pals.
This little video explains further (though you can always look up further references about the conduct of the Boer War).
WW2 snippets-Lili Marlene
September 3, 2019 August 20, 2020 abn397 Lili Marlene, Marlene Dietrich, popular culture, Popular music, Vera Lynn, World War 2 Lili Marlene, Marlene Dietrich, popular culture, popular music, Vera Lynn, World War 2
Today (September 3) marks the 80th anniversary of Britain and France declaring war on Germany. We look back on a song which was popular among the armed forces of Germany as well as Britain.
The story in brief is here:
And you can see more here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili_Marleen
While Marlene Dietrich had moved to Hollywood before the war, she later made it her signature song:
And Britain’s iconic singer of those days sang the English version:
In years to come, this was invariably sung at British-German war reunions.
Footnote: Vera Lynn (born 1917) lived up to 2020.
The Indians (and Brits) who fought on Hitler’s side
September 21, 2015 June 24, 2018 abn397 British Free Corps, Hitler, INA, India, Nazi, SS, World War 2 British Free Corps, German SS, Goebbels, Hitler, INA, India, Lord Haw-Haw, Nazi, The Eagle has Landed (Novel), Tiger Legion, World War 2
By now you know all about the heroic (?) deeds of the INA in East Asia. But you would not know about the Indians who fought in Hitler’s SS. The SS was not really racist-it had units from much of the Commonwealth, even a British unit as well as numerous non-Aryans from all over.
The main reference is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Waffen-SS_foreign_volunteers_and_conscripts#British_Commonwealth
though I am summarizing the main points below:
India: 2,500 in the
Indisches Freiwilligen Infanterie Regiment 950 or “Tiger Legion” This is described in some detail (including Netaji’s role) here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Legion
Stranger still was the story of the Britischer Freikorps in the SS (which had a peak strength of 27, not enough for a platoon).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Free_Corps
This was indeed so obscure that few people in Britain had heard about it until the publication of the popular novel “The Eagle Has Landed” in the mid-70s. It does not seem to figure in the movie.
The British government did, indeed, execute a few individuals such as William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) and John Amery for participating in broadcasts for Germany’s Ministry of Propaganda (headed by Herr Goebbels); as we know, Goebbels Jayanthi will be celebrated on a large scale in India on October 29 🙂 . But the irrelevance of the British Free Corps meant that nothing much happened to them.
BG link to Silchar is finally ready
June 25, 2015 May 18, 2017 abn397 Assam, Gauge conversion, Indian Railways, Lumding, Silchar Assam, Assam Bengal Railway, gauge conversion, Haflong, Indian Railways, Jatinga, Lumding, Silchar, World War 2
In the last two days, the CRS has inspected the BG line from Lumding to Badarpur and Silchar. It is understood that this route will be opened for passenger traffic shortly. It has been a particularly tortuous conversion (even worse than that of Hassan-Mangalore) which has stretched on since 1997.
Various acts of terrorism (including attacks on trains as well as construction sites), heavy monsoon rains as well as apathy from various Central governments did not help either. Here we see the distance tables for the BG and MG lines. Note that there is a completely new alignment in the central portion, bypassing Haflong and its circle round the hill. A total of 16 km has been reduced. Some stations have been left out while new stations have been added. These are marked in bold.
Here you can see the beginning of the diversion from Migrendisa. Of course, if you follow the line right from Lumding you will see quite a difference in alignments. In some cases like Migrendisa the BG and MG stations are at different locations. You can follow the route down to Bandarkhal to see the different alignments clearly: https://www.google.co.in/maps/place/Haflong,+Assam+788819/@25.1799083,93.0555428,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x374fa3e329fdadf3:0xe2ff7a660d6272c8
Important note: As of May 2017 the old alignment is no longer shown on Google Maps. Only the new alignment is shown.
Jatinga is a sort of tourist spot because of the birds which are bent on ending their livesthere, though it is not really a mystery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jatinga
Another odd point is a station with the typical North Indian name of Kalachand, among exotic names more reminiscent of East Asia.
At the time of writing there is no service between Badarpur and Karimganj (which is still under conversion), while one pair of MG passenger trains are running between Karimganj and Agartala.
The Lumding-Badarpur route has a long and not very happy history. (However, the Badarpur-Silchar section is in the plains and does not have any particular problem with the terrain). The former was considered as a major operational bottleneck, with abut 18 km of 1:37 gradient which is now eliminated. It was a major supply route during World War 2, with supplies being shipped from Chittagong port to Upper Assam, where a number of airstrips in the Dibrugarh area were supplying China over the Himalayas. And there were the army operations in what is now Nagaland and Manipur. The Japanese came close to capturing Dimapur, which may have resulted in the fall of much of North-eastern India. Here are a couple of pictures from that time:
The full caption reads: …crossing the Detokcherra Bridge on the Bengal Assam Railway. The pipeline on the near side of the bridge is the Chittagong-Lumding pipeline.
These pictures are from a book “Line of Communication” by John Thomas (1947) which gives a comprehensive picture of railway operations east of Calcutta during the war, when most of the running was taken over by the US armed forces. At that time the old stalwarts the Eastern Bengal Railway and the Assam Bengal Railway had been merged into the Bengal & Assam Railway for the purpose of better coordination in wartime. There was plenty of reorganization again in 1947. I will cover more about the earlier history later.
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Smith To Vote For Shays-Meehan Reform Tonight
Ninth District Congressman Adam Smith will vote for the comprehensive Shays-Meehan campaign finance reform legislation tonight on the House floor. Smith, a co-sponsor of the legislation, will also oppose several amendments designed to weaken or erode support for the bill.
“The Shays-Meehan reform bill will eliminate the most egregious aspect of campaign financing – soft money,” Smith explained. “Soft money is the unregulated money that donors give to political parties who then use it on behalf of candidates running for office. Simply put, it’s a way for big money to get around the current contribution limits.”
In addition to eliminating federal soft money, Shays-Meehan also regulates issue advocacy, confirms the right of labor union members to disallow political use of their dues and requires electronic filing to the Federal Election Commission.
Smith will vote against two amendments which gives wealthy contributors more influence in the political process. The amendments, both sponsored by Representative Ed Whitfield (R-Kentucky), would increase the individual campaign contribution limit from $1,000 to $3,000 and increase the aggregate annual individual contribution level from $30,000 to $75,000.
“I believe the current campaign contribution limits of $1,000 per person and an aggregate level of $30,000 per person are appropriate,” said Smith. “Tripling those limits is a step in the wrong direction.”
The votes are expected late this evening.
Smith To Donate To Federal Way Learning With Lap Top Program
Ninth District Congressman Adam Smith will present a donation of $500 to the Federal Way schools’ Learning with Lap Top program and see a demonstration of the program on Tuesday, September 7, at 8:00 a.m. at Thomas Jefferson High School.
The $500 is from Smith’s congressional pay raise. Although he voted against the pay raise, it became law and Smith promised to donate it to local education and community programs. The $500 will sponsor a student in the program for a year.
“The Learning with Lap Top program is a great example of how technology can improve students’ education,” Smith said. “I’ve very excited to be able to sponsor a student for a year in this innovative program. I believe we need to ensure that our students have access to technology so that they are prepared for the 21st century economy.”
The Learning with Lap Top program is sponsored by the Greater Federal Way Chamber of Commerce Education Foundation, which accepts donations to fund the program. Students are then given laptops for a year to use in their studies.
Adam Smith Donates Pay Raise To Auburn Boys & Girls Club
Ninth District Congressman recently toured the Auburn Boys and Girls Club and presented a donation of $250 from his Congressional pay raise.
Although Smith voted against a Congressional pay raise, Members of Congress received one. Smith has promised to donate his pay raise to education and other worthy programs throughout the Ninth District.
The Auburn Boys and Girls Club is an extension of the Federal Way Boys and Girls Club, and both operate out of the same budget. It opened on March 1st, 1999 as a collaborative program with the King County Housing Authority. The site serves low income children, including kids newly arrived from Somalia and Ukraine.
“I am very pleased to donate to the Auburn Boys and Girls Club, which provides important services to the Auburn community,” Smith said. “I believe the Boys and Girls Club is a great example of communities coming together to improve the lives of kids.”
John Evans, Unit Director, said, “It’s always a pleasure to have Congressman Smith stop by the Boys and Girls Club. Both the kids and community leaders appreciate the congressman’s support and donation.”
House Passes Critical Funding Measure For Fort Lewis, McChord
Ninth District Congressman Adam Smith today voted for the Conference Report on Military Construction Appropriations bill, which includes over $128 million in military construction projects for the state of Washington.
“This legislation includes funding for key projects at both Fort Lewis and McChord,” Smith said. “These improvements will help increase the quality of life for the men and women who serve our country.”
Specifically, the legislation includes:
MCCHORD AFB PROJECTS
• $7.9 million in improvements to the C-17 squadron operations/aircraft maintenance unit;
• $3.3 million in improvements to the Air Force Reserve C-17 maintenance unit facility.
FORT LEWIS AND YAKIMA PROJECTS
• $5.5 million to replace the north dental clinic;
• $5.2 million for an ammunition storage facility;
• $6.2 million for a physical fitness training center;
• $12 million for tank trail erosion mitigation in Yakima;
• $16.3 million for an Army National Guard maneuver area training equipment site.
“These projects are critical to ensuring those serving at Fort Lewis and McChord have top-notch facilities that improve their quality of life and their ability to do their job,” Smith said. “I was proud to vote for this legislation and look forward to seeing it signed by the President.”
Ninth District Congressman Adam Smith Votes To Loosen Encryption Export Controls
Today in the House Armed Services Committee, Ninth District Congressman Adam Smith was one of six Members of Congress to oppose the Weldon amendment to gut key provisions of H.R. 850, the Security and Freedom through Encryption Act.
Joining Smith in opposition to the Weldon amendment were Democrats Loretta Sanchez, Marty Meehan, Baron Hill, Ellen Tauscher, and Republican Mary Bono.
Despite proponents’ claims, Smith says that relaxing export restrictions will not threaten national security. “The technology has already proliferated throughout the world,” he said. “Our export restrictions are not protecting our national security, they’re simply giving foreign software companies a chance to capture the global encryption technology market.”
Smith argues that current policy is the real threat to U.S. national security. “Our self-imposed ban on
encryption exports is disadvantaging U.S. software companies and threatening our competitiveness in this emerging new technology,” said Smith. “The real threat to our national security would be for the United States to lose its advantage in top-of-the-line technologies such as encryption. If we continue tying the hands of U.S. firms and conceding market share to foreign companies, that will be the result.”
Other countries either have much looser restrictions on encryption technology or no restrictions at all. Canada has allowed a company to export its encryption software, and it sells 128-bit encryption for less than fifty dollars. Encryption software can also be easily downloaded from the Internet.
This year, opponents of relaxing encryption export controls used the Cox-Dicks report as an excuse to keep export restrictions intact. Smith countered this argument by pointing out that Representative Chris Cox, who headed the commission that produced the Cox-Dicks report, is a co-sponsor of H.R. 850.
“We have to prioritize national security and ensure other countries don’t have access to our military secrets, but trying to wrap our arms around encryption technology and hinder U.S. companies’ ability to continue to be the worldwide leaders in this industry is like holding water with a fish net,” Smith said.
Smith, a member of the New Democrat Coalition, criticized the Republicans and Republican Conference Chair and Armed Services Committee Member J.C. Watts for failing to protect H.R. 850. “Just a few weeks ago, we heard the Republicans profess their support for the New Economy and the technology industry,” he said. “But where were they today? Why did Congressman Watts, the Republicans’ supposed technology policy leader, vote to gut this bill that is so important to our high-tech economy and our national security?”
The next step is the Rules Committee, where committee members will weigh changes made to H.R. 850 by four different committees and produce a final product for floor consideration. Smith and other supporters of H.R. 850 will seek passage of the original bill.
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Hispanic dating a white guy
Policy on Harassment, Discrimination, and Sexual Misconduct
Consensual Relationships
Since #MeToo, colleges crack down on romantic relationships between professors and students
Former Student, Fair Game?
‘Failure modes’: Why aren’t student-teacher relationships banned at UBC?
College and University Blog
Secret Lovers: Why dating your professor is a bad idea
UCF Professor Richard Quinn accuses class of cheating [Original]
HR contacts. Employee Relations contacts. Purdue University is committed to maintaining an environment in which learning, discovery and engagement take place in a professional atmosphere of mutual respect and trust. Amorous Relationships can develop within the University community between faculty, students and staff. The disparity of power when an Amorous Relationship is between 1 a student and a faculty member, graduate teaching or research assistant, or any other University employee who has educational responsibility over the student, 2 a supervisor and subordinate, or 3 senior and junior colleagues in the same department or unit makes the individuals involved susceptible to exploitation. Relationships between faculty and students are particularly susceptible to exploitation. The respect and trust accorded a member of the faculty by a student, as well as the power exercised by faculty in giving grades, approvals or recommendations for future study and employment, make voluntary consent by the student suspect. Those who abuse their power in the context of an Amorous Relationship where there is Educational or Employment Supervision and Evaluation violate their duty to the University community. Voluntary consent by the student or subordinate in a romantic or sexual relationship is difficult to determine given the asymmetric nature of the power structure in the relationship.
Despite receiving media attention in and , UBC policy concerning faculty-student relationships remains unchanged and, for the most part, unspoken of. If a student and professor had a relationship for outside gain, it would be mediated using the Conflict of Interest policy. Mac Lean says student-teacher relations should be given more attention by UBC — not necessarily because he believes that a complete ban should be introduced, but because it deserves a conversation. Margot Young, who sat on the Policy steering committee.
The lack of any cohesive policy on faculty-student relationships has posed serious problems for the school and its community in the past.
A new rule clarifies appropriate relationships between professors all kinds of professor-student dating on campus: The professor who led the.
The University of Texas at Austin “University” is committed to maintaining an academic community including associated teaching, research, working and athletic environments free from conflicts of interest, favoritism, and exploitation. Romantic relationships between certain categories of individuals affiliated with the University risks undermining the essential educational purpose of the University and can disrupt the workplace and learning environment.
This policy applies to all University employees including faculty , student employees, students, and affiliates. Any person serving in the capacity as an Intercollegiate Athletics head coach, associate head coach, assistant coach, graduate assistant coach, coaching intern, volunteer coach, or any individual exercising coaching responsibilities. Except as specifically stated herein, employee includes faculty, classified staff, administrative and professional staff, post-doctoral positions, and employee positions requiring student status.
Any student undergraduate or graduate who is currently participating as a member of an intercollegiate varsity sport sponsored by the University. Any individual whose terms and conditions of employment, student, student-athlete, or affiliate status are controlled or affected by a supervisor, as defined by this policy. An individual associated with the University in a capacity other than as a student or employee who has access to University resources through a contractual arrangement or other association that has been reviewed and approved in accordance with guidelines established by Human Resources “HR” , the Executive Vice President and Provost “EVPP” , or the Vice President for Research.
Examples of a University Affiliate may include, but are not limited to:. The following consensual relationships, even if a single interaction, are prohibited and cannot be mitigated by a mitigation plan. See Section VII. Also, for purposes of this policy, the term “undergraduate” does not include any individual who is considered an undergraduate at the University solely because the individual is taking course s through the Staff Educational Benefit offered to University employees. Exemptions to any of these provisions will be considered on a case-by-case basis and will be approved by the Senior Associate Vice President – Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, wit input from the supervisor s of the individual s involved.
Rutgers University professors are prohibited from having romantic relationships with graduate students in their departments — and all undergraduates — under a sweeping new policy created in response to concerns about sexual harassment on campus, school officials said. Under the new policy :. Couples who are currently in a relationship in violation of the new policy must apply to a university chancellor for an exemption within 30 days, campus officials said.
And UC doesn’t have a rule against that. Professor/student romances should never happen because of the power dynamic, Stevens said. “How.
The University of Chicago is a community of scholars dedicated to research, academic excellence, and the pursuit and cultivation of learning. Members of the University community cannot thrive unless each is accepted as an autonomous individual and is treated without regard to characteristics irrelevant to participation in the life of the University. Freedom of expression is vital to our shared goal of the pursuit of knowledge and should not be restricted by a multitude of rules.
At the same time, unlawful discrimination, including harassment, compromises the integrity of the University. The University is committed to taking necessary action to prevent, correct, and, where indicated, discipline unlawful discrimination. Sexual misconduct may violate the law, does violate the standards of our community, and is unacceptable at the University of Chicago.
Sexual misconduct can be devastating to the person who experiences it directly and can adversely impact family, friends, and the larger community. Regardless of the definitions provided below, people who believe they have experienced any sexual misconduct are encouraged to report the incident and to seek medical care and support as soon as possible. This policy expresses the University’s commitment to an environment free from discrimination, sexual harassment and other unlawful forms of harassment, sexual misconduct, sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking and conforms to legal requirements.
The policy is under review. The University reaffirms its commitment to maintaining an environment that is free from harassment and discrimination. A person who wishes to obtain information on the prevention of harassment or discrimination or find out about the process for filing a complaint can contact one of the harassment and discrimination resource centres on campus:.
Sexual misconduct is antithetical to the standards and ideals of our community. Violations of Yale’s Policy on Teacher-Student Consensual Relations and its Teachers or students with questions about this policy are advised to Dating violence is violence committed by a person who is or has been in a.
Institutions tend to either ban student-faculty dating altogether or where a supervisory relationship exists. The ages of the couple — her, 25; him, 71 — are unusually far apart. Princeton, like a growing number of institutions, has banned all student-faculty relationships, including for graduate students. Platt has said that she waited until two years after her graduation to ask Mitchell out.
Mitchell, who is currently on preplanned leave, is just one of a number of professors to engage in or attempt to initiate a relationship with a former student or students. Still, experts with different positions on student-faculty dating advise against adopting any kind of timeline for dating former students. Andrew T. There are a lot of questions that will arise, with too many anomalies as far as circumstances. Just not now. According to court documents, Barrett sent a student of his a Facebook friend request at the end of the spring semester, when she was in his class.
The two corresponded over the summer about the student’s writing. Back on campus in the fall, the student asked to meet Barrett for coffee, and they began dating. The first student later filed a complaint with the university, alleging that Barrett had touched her genitals while she was sleeping during their relationship.
This was the culmination of a process that began nearly three years ago. This was the first full rulemaking on a major Title IX issue since , and the only one ever dedicated to sexual harassment. The department received over , comments on its proposal and held scores of meetings with interested parties. Its detailed explanation of the final rule ran to more than 2, pages. The rules have already been challenged in court, and Democrats in Congress will probably try to use the Congressional Review Act to overturn them.
But neither effort is likely to prevent the rules from going into effect as scheduled in August.
“In general, it’s against the rules, especially since it’s a student in [his] class.” Credit: Julia Schorr. A College senior from New York who said the.
The structure of the collegiate University is such that staff and students will often come into contact both in their faculty or department and within their college and this can lead to the development between them of a close personal or intimate relationship. These relationships can develop, for instance, between students and staff involved in lecturing or conducting tutorials, supervising their research, administering awards, or providing personal and welfare support.
Such relationships raise issues, relating to inequalities of power in a relationship, or perceived favouritism, or the undermining of trust in the academic process. The policy generally relates to members of academic and academic-related staff who have any responsibility for a student with whom they are having or have had a relationship. Expand All. For the purposes of this policy, a ‘member of staff’ should be understood as including but not limited to any individual who is working within the University under a formal contract of employment or as a casual paid worker including graduate students working as teaching assistants or demonstrators , and any other individual such as visiting academics to whom the University offers any of the privileges or facilities normally available to its employees.
A student should be understood as any individual who is studying for an undergraduate or postgraduate qualification, or who is a student on any course arranged by or through the University or any part of the collegiate University. Responsibility for a student is to be interpreted broadly to include any teaching, professional, pastoral or administrative responsibility, whether temporary or permanent, and whether in a University or College context.
This includes but is not limited to lecturing, supervising, mentoring, overseeing or advising on projects, work or laboratory experience, fieldwork, internships or vacation study placements, and the setting or marking of examinations or other assessments of any type. Members of staff who experience unwanted advances and other unwelcome behaviour should raise the issue with their Head of Department, the Chair of the Faculty Board, or their manager. Additional support for staff may be sought from the Departmental Administrator or HR Officer, or from an appropriate trade union.
This policy highlights the risks in sexual or romantic relationships in the Stanford workplace or academic setting between individuals in inherently unequal positions; prohibits certain relationships between teachers and students; and requires recusal from supervision and evaluation and notification in other relationships. Applies to all students, faculty, staff, and others who participate in Stanford programs and activities. There are special risks in any sexual or romantic relationship between individuals in inherently unequal positions, and parties in such a relationship assume those risks.
In the university context, such positions include but are not limited to teacher and student, supervisor and employee, senior faculty and junior faculty, mentor and trainee, adviser and advisee, teaching assistant and student, principal investigator and postdoctoral scholar or research assistant, coach and athlete, attending physician and resident or fellow, and individuals who supervise the day-to-day student living environment and their students. Because of the potential for conflict of interest, exploitation, favoritism, and bias, such relationships may undermine the real or perceived integrity of the supervision and evaluation provided.
Further, these relationships are often less consensual than the individual whose position confers power or authority believes.
Should a professor be allowed to date their students? “The rules at the moment are being governed by two sets of things, mostly covering The lack of any cohesive policy on faculty-student relationships has posed serious.
While relationships between students and professors aren’t unheard of, they can be a source for all kinds of problems. A professor is in a position of authority over a student, whether or not he or she is that student’s teacher or supervisor, which makes any dating arrangement tricky at best. Ultimately, if the two are consenting adults there’s no scenario where it’s OK for a high school teacher to date a current student , there’s not much anyone can do to prevent them from pursuing a romantic relationship.
But expect there to be consequences. First things first: A student must be 18 years old to legally be able to consent to a relationship with an adult. Beyond that, some schools have specific rules about what to do if a student and a professor want to pursue a romantic relationship. Breaking those rules could jeopardize the professor’s job and the student’s status. If you’re at an institution where there aren’t official rules about dating, there are most likely some guidelines or unofficial community expectations.
Is it frowned upon? Is it OK to date a professor, so long as you’re not in one of his or her classes? Be aware that even if you’re not breaking any rules, your relationship, and how it’s perceived could cause problems. Even if the professor isn’t the student’s teacher when the relationship starts, problems could arise if the student ends up in the professor’s class later on.
As a member of the faculty, the professor holds power over the student. Additionally, other students may perceive a student dating a professor as having an unfair advantage.
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The former Undergraduate Chair of the Psychology Department Robert Kurzban had a sexual relationship with an undergraduate female student while he was her instructor, according to three sources close to the student.
Information for staff and managers about the University’s policy on close personal or intimate relationships between staff and students.
Last Updated: March 23, References. This article was co-authored by our trained team of editors and researchers who validated it for accuracy and comprehensiveness. There are 24 references cited in this article, which can be found at the bottom of the page. This article has been viewed , times. Learn more If you find yourself lingering often after class for a few more snippets of conversation, or spending a little too much time staring instead of listening during lectures, you might be interested in dating your professor.
Given the many rules on colleges about relationships between teachers and students, this can be a bit tricky. But, if you play your cards right during the semester, you can get your professor interested, learn a little more about him or her, and start a relationship with an educated professional. For example, sit closer to the front of the class so they notice you more, and make direct eye contact during lectures.
You should also try to wear clean, form-fitting clothes that make you look professional.
This piece is part of our Formative Years series , where writers reflect on their college experience. Like so many wide-eyed college kids before me, I had a crush on my professor. It all began 10 years this week. I was 17, and he At first it was innocent enough.
A romantic relationship between a professor and student is generally not a If you’re at an institution where there aren’t official rules about dating, there are could arise if the student ends up in the professor’s class later on.
Legal and ethical risks are inherent in any sexual or romantic relationship between a person with instructional responsibilities full-time or part-time faculty, lecturer, visiting professor, graduate assistant, or tutor and a student whose academic work is being supervised by the person with instructional responsibilities, even when the relationship seems to be consensual.
The same is true of a sexual or romantic relationship between a person with non-instructional supervisory responsibilities faculty, administrator, staff, or student and someone over whom the person has supervisory responsibility. Individuals involved in a romantic relationship cannot be expected to be able to render an objective assessment of the performance of his or her partner in the relationship; the ability to render an objective assessment is crucial to the role of instructor or supervisor.
If such a relationship exists or develops, the person with instructional or supervisory responsibilities shall immediately make arrangements to terminate his or her instructional or supervisory responsibilities over the partner in the relationship. A member of the campus community who fails to withdraw from participation in decisions that may reward or penalize the party with whom he or she has or has had a sexual or romantic relationship will be deemed to have violated his or her ethical obligation to the University.
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CMT Reveals New Summer Programming Slate Including New Series “BACHELORETTE WEEKEND” From the Producers of Jersey Shore and Party Down South
NASHVILLE – May 24, 2018 – Having recently wrapped the quarter with its highest ratings in four years, CMT today unveiled its summer programming slate of new and returning original series and music events, including new series “Bachelorette Weekend” from SallyAnn Salsano and 495 Productions, producers of “Jersey Shore” and “Party Down South,” the final episodes of the landmark series “Nashville” and a new season of “Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders: Making The Team.”
With Nashville quickly becoming the leading destination for bachelorette parties, “Bachelorette Weekend,” premiering Thursday, August 2 at 11pm ET/PT follows the staff of Bach Weekend, a Nashville-based company specializing in creating once-in-a-lifetime bachelor/bachelorette experiences for would-be brides and grooms celebrating their final fling before the ring. Owner/Founder Robbie and his team – Nicole, Rosa, Liz, Rachal and Johnathan – work tirelessly to ensure their high-maintenance (and often inebriated) clients have a flawless experience, all in hopes of getting a five-star review from the clients. Since every employee is given a financial stake in the company, the importance of the five-star reviews directly affects their bank accounts. Pulling your weight has never been so important.
After kicking its way to its highest-rated season to date, season 13 of the hit series “Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team,” returns Thursday, August 2 at 10pm ET/PT with 13 new episodes. The docu-series captures the rigors of training camp on the path to become a member of the world’s most elite squad. The coveted spots require hard work and commitment, and not everyone has what it takes to make the team. This season, returning vets will battle for spots amongst a talented crop of rookies, including seasoned cheerleaders from the worlds of NFL, NBA and NHL; Miss America 2017 first runner-up; professional hip hop dancers and a former competitive ice skater. At the end of the day, their fate rests in the hands of DCC Director Kelli Finglass, who expects the best from these elite athletes.
This summer, “Nashville,” the groundbreaking music drama, returns to the stage for a triumphant swan song. In the final eight episodes, Juliette (Hayden Panettiere) returns in full force and ready to take on cult leader Darius. Deacon (Charles Esten) is forced to face his past when an unwelcomed visitor arrives. Daphne (Maisy Stella) takes center stage under the guidance of Deacon’s biggest foe, while Maddie (Lennon Stella) questions her relationship with Jonah. Scarlett (Clare Bowen) forces Sean out of his comfort zone, while Avery (Jonathan Jackson) and Gunnar (Sam Palladio) struggle to move forward with their band without Will (Chris Carmack). “Nashville” returns on Thursday, June 7 at 9pm ET/PT.
CMT’s summer music line-up includes “2018 CMT Music Awards,” (premiering Wednesday, June 6 at 8pm ET/PT), a brand new “CMT Crossroads” with Leon Bridges and Luke Combs (premiering Thursday, June 28 at 10pm ET/PT) and weekly new episodes of “CMT Hot 20 Countdown” (premiering Saturdays and Sundays at 9am ET/PT).
Hosted by Little Big Town, the “2018 CMT MUSIC AWARDS” LIVE from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, June 6 at 8pm ET/PT will feature performances by Blake Shelton, Chris Stapleton, Kelly Clarkson, Kelsea Ballerini, Luke Bryan and Sam Hunt. More superstar performances and presenters soon to be announced. Fans can vote for their favorite artists now via CMT.com until Monday, June 4th for categories including “Video of the Year,” “Male Video of the Year,” “Female Video of the Year,”, “Duo Video of the Year,” “Group Video of the Year,” “Breakthrough Video of the Year,” “Collaborative Video of the Year” and “CMT Performance of the Year.”
CMT’s seminal music series, “CMT Crossroads,” which recently nabbed its highest ratings in five years, returns with a special episode from the vibrant streets of downtown Nashville, featuring Grammy-nominated R&B artist Leon Bridges and global breakthrough Country singer-songwriter Luke Combs. The one-hour event premiering Thursday, June 28 at 10pm ET/PT will feature chart-topping hits as well as new songs from both critically-acclaimed artists.
Hosted by CMT favorites Cody Alan and Katie Cook, “CMT Hot 20 Countdown,” which recently wrapped the quarter with its best ratings in four years, combines the top music videos with the hottest news stories, LIVE performances and candid interviews from country music’s biggest superstars and up-and-coming artists. This summer, Cody and Katie will be traveling across the country and covering all the hottest festivals, concerts and more. Stops include the Carolina Country Music Festival, the Virginia Beach Patriotic Festival, Panama City’s Gulf Coast Jam. In August, the show will launch its “90s Country: I Like It, I Love it” miniseries with an all-star kickoff concert.
The summer programming slate announcement comes as the network recently wrapped its highest-rated quarter since 2014 and notched its fifth consecutive quarter of year-over-year ratings growth. The momentum continues with this quarter-to-date pacing above the prior year amongst Adults 18-49 and Woman 18-49. April 2018 was CMT’s best April performance in 4 years, extending the channel’s streak of 17 consecutive months of year-over-year ratings growth among Adults 18-49 and Women 18-49 (L+SD, CMT Total Day).
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Virtus adds more playmaking with guard Adams
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Virtus Segafredo Bologna added firepower to its already-stacked backcourt by signing guard Josh Adams for the up-coming season, the club announced on Monday. Adams (1.88 meters, 25 years) arrives from a fellow 7DAYS EuroCup contender Unicaja Malaga, where last season he made his competition debut last season and averaged 11.5 points, 2.5 assists, 2.2 rebounds and 1.0 steals while starting in each of his 15 appearances. Adams also had 12.2 points, 2.2 assists and 2.1 rebounds in the Spanish League action last season. Began his professional career with Avtodor Saratov in Russia, before joining Anadolu Efes Istanbul where he played for the majority of the 2017-18 season and where he made 16 appearances in the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague, averaging 7.0 points. Adams also played professionally with Besiktas Istanbul in Turkey, and split the 2018-19 season between Toronto of the G-League and Shanxi Zhongyu in the Chinese League. He now joins a Virtus backcourt that also features a pair of stars in veteran playmakers Milos Teodosic and Stefan Markovic.
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Summer Grove Area Improvements
AEP Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO) is committed to providing the electricity that customers need. To that end, the company is upgrading the aging electric backbone of the region with a $46 million reliability transmission program called “Powering Up Shreveport – Bossier City.” One of the program’s six major electric transmission improvement projects is Summer Grove Area Improvements.
Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO) is planning to make a variety of improvements in the Summer Grove area of Shreveport. The project is part of a greater initiative to bolster the electric system in the Shreveport - Bossier City area.
Major components of the project include:
About 1.5 miles of new 69-kilovolt (kV) transmission line
Building a new 138 kV substation - Leaside Way Substation
Rerouting approximately 1 mile of 138 kV line around the proposed Leaside Way Substation
Upgrading six existing substations in the Summer Grove area and surrounding areas
Removing conductor from an existing 69 kV transmission line
By building this transmission line, the area will be better served for continued reliable electric service and stronger support for economic growth in Shreveport - Bossier City. The company expects to invest an estimated $25 million on this project.
Construction on this project has been ongoing since last year. Delays in the project are due to inclement weather. However, crews begin construction on the new 69-kilovolt (kV) transmission line in July and expect to be complete by the end of the year.
The Louisiana Public Service Commission (LPSC) approved SWEPCO's Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CCN) application on January 31, 2018. Per this approval by the LPSC, SWEPCO plans to move forward with the next steps of the project. Preliminary field activities such as surveying will begin Spring 2018. Right-of-way agents will be contacting affected landowners as those activities get underway.
News Release - May 10, 2017 (PDF)
News Release - March 8, 2017 (PDF)
Summer Grove Fact Sheet (PDF)
Typical Structure
Typical distance between structures: 400 feet - 600 feet
Typical Pole Height: 80 – 110 feet
Typical Right-of-way: 100 feet
*Exact structures and height may vary
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North Korea’s Cyber Threat
Frank Vernuccio | On May 14, 2020
Washington has issued an advisory warning about North Korea’s (DPRK) ongoing cyber threat.
According to the statement,
“The DPRK’s malicious cyber activities threaten the United States and the broader international community and, in particular, pose a significant threat to the integrity and stability of the international financial system. […] The DPRK has increasingly relied on […] cybercrime to generate revenue for its weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs. In particular, the United States is deeply concerned about North Korea’s malicious cyber activities, which the U.S. government refers to as HIDDEN COBRA.”
The warning outlined some common tactics the Pyongyang-sponsored cyber criminals use to gain funds. Sometimes, the target is not a national asset or an individual or a business, but a financial institution or a digital currency. The illicit gains are then laundered within North Korea.
Despite its weak economy, The DPRK has the capability to conduct cyber activities that endanger both key national infrastructure for global goals, and private enterprises to illicitly profit from the hard work of others. The rogue nation has demonstrated a pattern of disruptive and harmful cyber activity that, according to the U.S. government, “[…] is wholly inconsistent with the growing international consensus on what constitutes responsible State behavior in cyberspace.”
Pyongyang’s state-sponsored cyber actors primarily consist of hackers, cryptologists, and software developers who conduct espionage, cyber-enabled theft targeting financial institutions and digital currency exchanges, and politically-motivated operations against foreign media companies. They develop and deploy a wide range of malware tools around the world to enable these activities and have grown increasingly sophisticated.
Extortion is a common tactic. The cyber crooks will threaten to disrupt or shut down entirely an organization’s valuable online presence unless money is paid. Occasionally, these arrangements are called “consulting contracts,” with the alleged services simply promising not to attack the business. It’s the 21st century of the old tactic of promising not to break a store window unless money is given to the vandal.
Another interesting approach is known as “cryptojacking.” That involves a scheme to compromise a victim machine and steal its computing resources to mine digital currency.
The attacks have been widespread, and have even included the U.S. government and the military.
The most famous cyber attacks include the 2014 assault on Sony Pictures, a 2016 attempt to steal a billion dollars from a Bangladesh bank, the infamous 2017 “Wannacry” virus that affected massive numbers of computers, including those used in private homes, and the 2016 “Fastcash” tactic which targeted ATMs in Asia and Africa.
There has been an international response. In December 2017, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom publicly attributed the WannaCry 2.0 ransomware attack to the DPRK and denounced its outrageous cyber activity. Denmark and Japan issued supporting statements for the joint denunciation of the destructive WannaCry 2.0 ransomware attack, which substantially affected hundreds of thousands of computers around the world in May of that year.
The FBI and other U.S. agencies have urged businesses and governments to strengthen their computer security, and to promptly report all attempts at theft and coercion by Pyongyang’s agents.
Washington has strongly urged countries to strengthen network defense, shutter DPRK joint ventures in third countries, and expel foreign-located North Korean information technology (IT) workers in a manner consistent with applicable international law. A 2017 UN Security Council resolution required all Member States to repatriate DPRK nationals earning income abroad, including IT workers, by December 22, 2019. The Trump Administration has requested that governments around the world, and the private sector as well, to enhance their capacity to deal with this threat and participate in international efforts to protect cyberspace.
Frank Vernuccio serves as editor-in-chief of the New York Analysis of Policy & Government.
Frank Vernuccio
Frank Vernuccio serves as editor-in-chief of the New York Analysis of Policy & Government (website usagovpolicy.com). He is the co-host of the syndicated radio program, Vernuccio/Novak Report, and is also a contributor to Fox News. His columns appear in many newspapers. After graduating Hofstra Law School, he was a legislative editor for a major publishing company, then served in both Republican and Democrat Administrations. Following the 9/11 attack, he was appointed to run the hard-hit Manhattan branch of the New York State Workers Compensation Board.
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Cairo, IL- the most desolate city in the US
November 15, 2016 November 15, 2016 Posted in Home, IllinoisTagged abandoned, architecture, black history, Cairo, civil war, ghost town, Illinois, mississippi river22 Comments
We’d been one step ahead of the storm for a while. Dark clouds piled high behind us, lighting streaking between them, as we sped on heading home. It was late afternoon when I slowed the car as the road cut through a small city. Or rather, what once was a city. The wind picked up and large raindrops fell, splashing onto the windshield, adding to the moodiness as we drove through the town.
Huge letters on a bridge announced to us that we had entered a city named Cairo.
I’ve always been fascinated with locations on the edge of something. Places that just don’t seem to fit in anywhere or rather, maybe, are the beginning or end of the line. Cairo (pronounced “Care-O” by locals) Illinois feels this way to me. Cairo is just barely in Illinois. It’s located on a small spit of land clinging to the bottom of Illinois and is bordered by Missiouri on one side and Kentucky on the other. It’s also just barely out of the water with the lowest elevation in Illinois and is located at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. All of this makes Cario feel cut off from the world. Not really belonging anywhere.
We drove into the center of town to its Main Street, Commercial Ave. Something was not right. The street was empty; abandoned. Buildings here were in various stages of decay, crumbling in on themselves as weeds consumed them from the outside. Many buildings were just gone, nothing more than an empty lot.
The wind picked up, sending a whirlwind of leaves and litter across the street. A pack of dogs ran by, chasing the blowing garbage into an empty lot. But other than those dogs, there was no one around. All was eerily quiet. How could a town that was once obviously thriving become a virtual ghost town?
Cairo was once a bustling town. It’s location made it an important city in the Civil War where it was used as a supply base and training ground for the Union Army. After the war it became an important steamboat port, then a hub for railroad shipping. Mark Twain, in his book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, even portrayed Cairo as the town Huck and Jim were headed to where Jim would be safe. Cairo was soon an important , wealthy city of 15,000.
Then the steamboats stopped running. Bridges were built to reroute railroads, and later autos, away from Cairo. And there was always the water. Despite levees and flood walls built to protect the city against seasonal flooding, the water kept overtaking the city. Numerous floods have devastated the city throughout the years. Jobs, then people left.
Racial tensions have been a major problem as well. There were a number of lynchings in the late 1800s-early 1900s. In the mid-1960s, the alleged police murder of a young black soldier led to protests and riots, and the National Guard was even called in. In response to perceived threats from the black community, the white community formed a civilians’ militia called the White Hats (wow, does that name sound like something else?!!!). Of course, that just made everything worse and more people left Cairo. You can read more about Cairo’s history here.
The final blow was the creation of Interstate 57 across the Mississippi in the late 1970s. There was now no reason to enter Cairo. Hotels closed, restaurants followed, and soon even the hospital shut down. Poverty skyrocketed and the population continued to dwindle. Cairo has, I think, the highest population drop of any city in the United States.
I’ve read that that there are efforts to revitalize Cairo. There’s so much history there, but I don’t know. The jobs are gone. The population has fallen to less than 2,400. Poverty and a poor education system plague the town. How do you recover? Looking at pictures online you see that more and more buildings disappear each year. The only tourists seem to be people like us, driving through, gawking at the devastation. Snapping those pictures.
But, I think the pictures show a certain beauty. The architecture of many of the buildings is amazing. Details you just don’t see today. And there’s beauty in the abandoned and overgrown. I think that you can feel more in an abandoned building. These buildings literally expose, layer upon layer, their history. The good, the bad, the changing world; all there revealed in the decay. You just get a feel of how much has gone on in the building when you see it crumbling and slowly being overtaken by nature.
Before we left Cairo we drove down to Fort Defiance Park (a military fortification during the Civil War). We walked up an overlook at stared out at the rivers. The exact place where the Ohio and Mississippi met and became one was very obvious. The waters slammed into one another and continued the flow south now as one; the mighty Mississippi. Always moving forward, fast, stopping for nothing.
A bolt of lightning suddenly hit near us lighting up the murky evening bright as day.
It was time to go. Time to move on.
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Xperia NXT Stories July 16, 2012
Sony launches Xperia NXT lineup in U.S., available unlocked from $300
- Jul. 16th 2012 7:27 am PT
Android Sony Xperia HDMI press release
Sony announced this morning that it is bringing its Xperia NXT Series to the United States with all three devices, including the Xperia S, Xperia P, and Xperia U, now available unlocked through Sony stores across the country and sony.com/NXT, Newegg.com, and various other online retailers. While we do not get LTE with any of these devices like AT&T’s Xperia Ion, they are compatible with both AT&T and T-Mobile’s networks. The lineup of devices originally unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February.
The flagship model of the series is the $560 Xperia S with a 4.3-inch 1,280-by-720 display, 12 megapixel main cam, 1GB of RAM, a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Dual Core processor, and it is available in black and white.
As for the Xperia P: $480 will get you a 4 inch, 960-by-540 display, 8 megapixel camera, 1GB of RAM, and a 1GHz dual core processor. The Xperia P is available in the silver, red, and black models that can be seen in the videos above and below. Xperia U is $300 (black or white), and it provides decent specs for the price point with a 3.5-inch 854-by-480 display, 5-megapixel camera, 512MB of RAM, and a 1Ghz dual core processor.
The entire NXT lineup comes with Android 2.3, but it is already upgradable to Ice Cream Sandwich. The two high-end models, Xperia S and P, also have built-in NFC, HDMI with BRAVIA Sync, as well as Sony’s Mobile BRAVIA Engine display technology.
Sony’s full press release and intro videos for the NXT lineup are below:
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A Portrait of Social Isolation and Loneliness in Canada today
by Angus Reid | June 17, 2019 2:00 am
Intersections between objective isolation and subjective loneliness divide the population into five groups
June 17, 2019 – Interpersonal connection is at the heart of all human society. As a species, we thrive on relationships and social interaction, to the point that our health as individuals is negatively affected[1] in the absence of these connections.
A wide-ranging new study from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute, conducted in partnership with Cardus[2], explores the quality and quantity of human connection in the lives of Canadians today, revealing significant segments of society in need of the emotional, social and material benefits connectedness can bring.
Fully six-in-ten Canadians (62%) say they would like their friends and family to spend more time with them, while only 14 per cent of Canadians would describe the current state of their social lives as “very good.”
Further, a substantial one-third (33%) could not definitively say they have friends or family members they could count on to provide financial assistance in an emergency, and nearly one-in-five (18%) aren’t certain they’d have someone they could count on for emotional support during times of personal crisis.
This study sorts Canadians along two key dimensions: social isolation (or the number and frequency of interpersonal connections a person has) and loneliness (or their relative satisfaction with the quality of those connections).
From these and other findings, a detailed portrait of isolation and loneliness in Canada emerges, sorting Canadians into five groups: The Desolate (23%), the Lonely but not Isolated (10%), the Isolated but not Lonely (15%), the Moderately Connected (31%), and the Cherished (22%).
The Cherished – those who suffer from neither social isolation nor loneliness – are most likely to be married, have children, and higher incomes.
While income level plays a significant role in the lives of all Canadians, the experiences of Canadians 55-and-older are particularly noteworthy. Within this group, those with incomes of less than $50,000 are twice as likely to be found in the Desolate group than those with incomes of $100,000 or more
Visible minorities, Indigenous Canadians, those with mobility challenges, and LGBTQ2 individuals are all noticeably more likely to deal with social isolation and loneliness than the general population average.
Faith-based activities, such as praying, church attendance and community outreach, are correlated with less isolation for individuals who partake in them
A strong majority of Canadians who use technology such as social media, texting, or video calling to remain connected with friends and family say that they appreciate the impact it has had on their ability to stay in touch
Part 1: What are social isolation and loneliness?
Isolation vs. Loneliness
Measuring Social Isolation
Measuring Loneliness
Part 2: The Index of Loneliness and Social Isolation (ILSI)
Who fits where?
Income and education
Generational comparison
Household composition and companionship
Importance of children
Religiosity, Isolation, and Loneliness
Part 3: Key Takeaways from the ILSI
Quality of Interpersonal relationships
Negative effects of isolation and loneliness
Financial and emotional support
Community activity and belonging
Part 4: Solutions
Introvert or extrovert?
Does technology help?
Most want more time with friends and family
In approaching the intersection of isolation and loneliness, one might think these phenomena are the same. However, someone dealing with social isolation could be described as a person with few social contacts, little meaningful interaction, or a lack of mutually rewarding relationships.
Isolation differs from loneliness in key ways. While isolation can be described through objective behaviours, such as actions and contact with others, loneliness is subjective. It is a feeling that permeates a significant level of the population.
Loneliness has been described[3] as a mismatch between the quantity and quality of social relationships that a person has, compared with what a person wants. It is an unwelcome feeling of lacking companionship. One way to think about the distinction is that a person cannot be isolated in a crowded room, but a person could feel lonely in that same room.
While these two ideas are separate unto themselves, they can also be connected, and research suggests[4] that one can sometimes lead into the other. Both of these issues have been described as a public health problem, as each can have negative health effects[5] if they persist.
To get a sense of the prevalence of social isolation in Canada today, the Angus Reid Institute asked respondents a variety of questions about their time spent with – and without – other people. Those questions included:
How much time are you alone? (35% of Canadians say “often” or “always”)
In the past month, how much social interaction have you had with:
Other members of your household (Among those who live with at least one other person, – 51% do “all the time”)
Co-workers/Other students (31% of those working or studying say daily or “many times” per month)
Family members not living with you (20% say daily or many times per month)
Friends (17% socialize with friends “frequently”)
Your neighbours (7%)
Have you ever spent a special occasion alone when you would have rather been with other people? (10% of Canadians say this “often” happens, 41% say it happens sometimes)
Do you yourself ever do any of the following?
Socialize with your neighbours (30% of Canadians say they do this regularly)
Use the local community centre or library (23%)
Go out to live events like music or theatre (21%)
Volunteer for a community group or cause (18%)
Participate in neighbourhood or community projects (8%)
On the surface, it appears that Canadians do not spend a significant portion of their time interacting with people outside of their own household. When asked how often in the past month they had seen various groups, from family members outside of their home, to friends, to neighbours, at least half in each instance say that none of these are a weekly occurrence for them:
Thus, people who live alone are at an acute disadvantage in terms of their social interactions. Because such a significant proportion of Canadians’ social stimulation comes from within their own homes, those who live alone are generally more isolated.
This is significant given that living alone is becoming increasingly common. The percentage of Canadians in single-person households has grown significantly[6] over the past 25 years. Statistics Canada estimates that one-in-four (26%) Canadians over 65 live alone. Further, the total proportion of the population living in one-person households has quadrupled over the last three generations, growing from[7] 7 per cent in 1951 to 28 per cent in 2016.
Thus, community engagement becomes increasingly important. However, Canadians are not particularly likely to be socially active in their immediate geographic communities. Just three-in-ten (30%) say they regularly socialize with their neighbours, while just one-in-five (18%) say they volunteer in their communities or go out to events such as live music or theatre shows (21%):
Combining the variables listed above, ARI researchers created a “social isolation index,” which grouped Canadians into the four categories below:
Similarly, the survey questionnaire asked respondents a series of questions aimed at measuring feelings of loneliness, including:
How often do you:
Wish you had someone to talk to, but don’t (41% of Canadians often or sometimes feel this way)
Feel lonely and wish you had more friendly human contact (47%)
Wish you had someone to go places with (54%)
Good friends: enough or wish you had more? (35% say they wish they had more)
Is the amount of time you spend alone about right, or would you change it? (23% would rather have less time alone)
Do you wish your own family and friends would spend more time visiting and socializing with you? (62% of Canadians would like more time, including 15% who wish for “lots more”)
One notable pattern that emerges in responses to many of these questions is that women under 35 tend to express greater feelings of loneliness than other age groups.
For example, while four-in-ten Canadians (40%) say that they sometimes or often wish they had someone to talk to but don’t, this sentiment rises to six-in-ten among young women (59%):
Further, young women are also much more likely to feel alone when they’re with other people:
Another path to gauging loneliness is to consider how much time Canadians spend alone, and whether or not this is ideal for them. One of the key elements of loneliness is a person’s desired social life compared to their actual circumstances. Using this lens, one-quarter of Canadians (23%) say they would rather have less time alone, led by 18-34-year-olds:
Combining these variables yields the following four groups of Canadians when it comes to loneliness:
In order to explore how these two concepts of social isolation and loneliness relate and overlap, the Angus Reid Institute first developed the two indices described in part 1 of this report – creating four categories based on social isolation and four based on loneliness.
Researchers then looked at a crosstab of the two indices to determine how many people in each of the four loneliness groups find themselves in each of the four isolation groups. How many people in Canada are Very Lonely but Not Isolated? How many are Very Isolated but Not Lonely? The graphic below shows the intersection of the eight groups and a colour coding of how they were further classified on ARI’s Index of Loneliness and Social Isolation (ILSI).
The five categories of the ILSI emerge as follows. For reference, the colours of the groupings below correspond to their place on the table above:
The Desolate (n = 474, 23% of the total population): These people are both lonely and isolated, and they fit into at least one of the “very lonely” or “very isolated” groups.
This group is more likely to be lower income: 41 per cent have an annual household income of less than $50,000.
Half (48%) have a high school education or less, and they are evenly distributed by age.
This group is also twice as likely as the Cherished to be single and to live alone.
Notably, many minority groups, including visible minorities, LGBTQ2 individuals and Indigenous Canadians, are more likely to be found in this group than others.
Lonely but Not Isolated (n = 199, 10% of the total population): This group is either very or somewhat lonely but finds itself in the non-isolated segments of the isolation index.
This is the smallest and youngest group of the total population
More than four-in-ten (43%) are under the age of 35, while just one-in-four (24%) are 55 or older.
Their income levels mirror the national average, but this group scores highest on education with 33 per cent having studied at university.
Fewer than six-in-ten (57%) are married or in a common law relationship, the lowest number except for the Desolate (48%)
Isolated but Not Lonely (n = 299, 15%): This group is the reverse of the former, in which members of the very or somewhat isolated groups find themselves in the non-lonely segments of the loneliness index.
These Canadians are characterized by lower than average income and education levels.
This group skews older– half (48%) of its members are 55 or older.
Six-in-ten (62%) are married, but many in this group have likely seen their children leave home.
Half (48%) have children over the age of 18.
The Moderately Connected (n = 639, 31% of the total population): These people are neither very lonely nor very isolated, but they also don’t display the characteristics of those who are not lonely or not isolated. They occupy a middle ground in this spectrum and tend to respond to questions in a way that mirrors the general population, overall.
This group is perhaps characterized by its proximity to the image of the “average Canadian.”
Income levels, education, age, household composition and marriage status are all remarkably similar to the national average.
The Cherished (n = 444, 22% of the total population): This group is neither lonely nor isolated. Its members find themselves in at least one of the “not lonely” or “not isolated” groups.
The group most well-off are the Cherished.
These Canadians have higher than average household income levels
They are most likely to be married (75% are).
They are also the most likely to have children, and due to these two preceding items, are least likely to live alone (just 11% do).
While each index group has members of all levels of wealth within it, The Desolate are twice as likely as The Cherished to have household incomes below $50,000 per year (41% vs. 21%).
Indeed, income level appears to rise across each of the five groups, from least connected to most, as seen in the graph below:
Further, The Desolate and the Isolated but Not Lonely are considerably less likely to have a university education, and much more likely to have a high school education or less, to the other groups. That said, this is more of a trend than a rule, as The Cherished are nearly evenly distributed across the three education levels:
Age plays a key role in the discussion around social isolation and loneliness. This area of research is well canvassed[8] with respect to seniors, who often report difficulties dealing with social isolation as they become more removed from friends or family after moves, or the loss of loved ones.
This, alongside potential mobility challenges and transportation limitations, may increase isolation among the aged. This trend is also seen in the ILSI, as those 55-and-older are considerably more likely to make up the Isolated but Not Lonely. That is, while they may not feel lonely, they have less positive interaction and contact with others than younger people.
That said, there is another group where those 55-and-older are overrepresented – the Cherished. So, while for some, the so-called “golden years” are a time of freedom and opportunity for connection, for others, they can represent hardship and personal challenges.
Young people, as mentioned earlier, are overrepresented in the Lonely but Not Isolated group. This suggests that some younger people are sufficiently engaged, but perhaps lacking in terms of their feeling of connection:
The difficulty for older Canadians becomes more evident when looking at this 55-and-older age group by income level. Seniors with lower incomes are much more highly represented in the Desolate group:
How much does having housemates impact a person’s sense of loneliness? It does, and it doesn’t. Consider two findings: The Desolate are more likely to live in small households – either alone or with just one other person. However, fully half of the Lonely but Not Isolated (53%) live with at least three other people, but are still – by definition – lonely:
By contrast, marital status is more consistently correlated with people’s senses of connectedness. The Desolate and the Lonely but Not Isolated are considerably less likely to be married or have a common-law spouse. Those who are at least Moderately Connected are more likely to be married, as are those who are Isolated but Not Lonely.
This suggests that for many, a spouse or partner is a key source of comfort and support. This is most evident among The Cherished – the group most likely to be married or common-law.
The Desolate are less likely to have children, while those in the Isolated but Not Lonely and Cherished groups – each of which tends to be older than the general population – are more likely to have grown children. Younger children are most likely to be found in the homes of those who are Lonely but Not Isolated. These parents evidently have their hands full, but may feel unfulfilled at times in terms of the expectations they have for their social life and the reality they face:
Minorities in Canadian society tend to be over-represented in the Desolate category.
About one-in-six (16%) Canadians surveyed self identify as “visible minorities” – people whose ethnic or religious backgrounds mark them as noticeably different from the majority white, European-descended population. Visible minorities are slightly over-represented in The Desolate (30% are in this category), relative to those who do not self-identify as such (22%).
In a similar vein, the 7 per cent of respondents to this survey who identify themselves as Indigenous are more likely to be in the Desolate group (30% versus 23% of non-Indigenous respondents; see index tables for greater detail[9]).
Those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or two-spirit (LGBTQ2) are significantly more likely to be in the Desolate group, and significantly less likely to be in the Cherished one, as seen in the graph that follows.
Physical disability is also highly correlated with more intense feelings of social isolation and loneliness. Nearly four-in-ten (38%) of those who have a physical disability are among the Desolate, as are more than one-in-four (27%) who have mobility challenges that affect their day to day lives:
Are there links between connectedness and faith or religious participation? Upon first glance, the relationship is not immediately illuminated, especially when viewed across the Angus Reid Institute’s Spectrum of Spirituality (read more about that here[10]):
That said, Canadians who are more religiously active are less likely to experience isolation. This is observable by examining religious attendance and its relationship with the ILSI. The Desolate and the Isolated but Not Lonely are more likely than other groups to never or rarely attend religious services. So, the two groups experiencing the highest levels of isolation are also the least likely to participate in religious activities:
This pattern of religiosity and lower levels of isolation is even clearer when the loneliness component is removed from the equation. Those who are more isolated are much less likely to have regular experience with religious communities. The Not Isolated are, in fact, more than twice as likely as the those on the opposite end of the Isolation Index to regularly attend religious services.
Another component of faith, prayer, is also more common in groups that experience less isolation. Half of the Not Isolated say they pray monthly (51%), while the proportion of those who do diminishes across each of the subsequent, more isolated, groups:
Importantly, a person’s place on The Index on Loneliness and Social Isolation (ILSI) correlates with elements of life satisfaction overall. For example, the Desolate are much more likely to assess their current social life negatively, while the Cherished almost unanimously see theirs as positive:
Satisfaction with the independent elements of one’s personal life are also highly correlated with their place on the ILSI. The number of the Cherished who say relationships in their lives are “very good” is well above the other four groups, while the proportion of the Desolate saying the same is consistently less than half that of the Cherished:
Whether it’s finances, physical and mental health, or social life, in each case, significant gaps exist between those with more connected social infrastructures and those without:
Perhaps the starkest gap emerges on life satisfaction. Asked to rate their lives overall, six-in-ten (60%) among the Cherished say that they are “very satisfied.” This drops to 28 per cent among the Moderately Connected, and further, to just one-in-ten (12%) among the Desolate, as seen in the graph that follows.
Notably, a minority of Canadians are “very satisfied” with their lives. Just one-in-three (33%) say this:
There are also material consequences to isolation and loneliness. Asked whether they feel they have someone to turn to in a time of serious financial trouble, more than half (54%) of the Desolate cannot say definitively that they would have someone. Conversely, at least six-in-ten across each of the other groups say they have at least one or two people they can think of to turn to in this situation.
Overall, fully one-in-three Canadians (33%) are uncertain whether they would be able to count on friends or family members in a financial emergency:
In a time of emotional need, nearly one-in-five Canadians (18%) couldn’t say for sure they have someone they could turn to. The proportion of the Desolate who say this is more than twice that number (41%):
On a related note, about half of Canadians (46%) say they have fulfilling face-to-face conversations on a regular basis. For another one-third (34%), these are intermittent. What stands out is the increased likelihood that The Desolate rarely or never have meaningful conversations in their lives:
Does a lack of connectivity drive diminished feelings of belonging within one’s community? While two-thirds (64%) overall say they have at least a “somewhat strong” sense of belonging, for the Desolate, the pendulum swings the other way. They are the only group wherein a majority (54%) feels a weak connection to their immediate surroundings:
This research has mostly dealt with issues of isolation and loneliness at the scale of Canada’s population as a whole, rather than within specific affected groups. Still, a significant proportion of the population may feel predisposed to reject efforts to increase the quantity and quality of their social interactions. More than seven-in-ten Canadians (71%) self-identify as introverts, rather than extroverts. Actual proportions of introversion or extroversion in Canada are difficult to pin down[11], and some Canadians may be a little of both, or “ambiverted.”
For many introverts, increased interpersonal contact isn’t necessarily positive or desirable. Members of the Isolated but not Lonely group, in particular, may not be clamouring for increased human contact. That said, each of the five segments of the ILSI also contains extroverted people who – with the possible exception of the Cherished – would likely enjoy and benefit from more and deeper relationships.
For those extroverted people who are not currently among the Cherished – and likely for many introverts as well – more frequent or higher quality human interaction would be a boon, and the starting point for any resolution to the problems of isolation and loneliness.
One potential avenue for increased social interaction is technology. Most Canadians talk on the phone and use social media to keep in touch with friends and family at least occasionally, and this survey finds some four-in-ten (38%) adopting video calling applications for such communications as well:
Most people who use social media, text or email to keep in touch with friends and family say doing so makes them feel more connected, and an even greater share of those who use video calling say the same, as seen in the graph that follows. Very few Canadians who use these technologies for social interaction actively dislike them, though many are lukewarm, describing them as “better than nothing”:
Spending more time with others in the physical world is an obvious remedy for social isolation, as well as loneliness, but Canadians’ willingness to actually spend more time with each other is difficult to measure.
On one level, Canadians seem acutely aware of loneliness in their social circles. Most (76%) say there are – or at least could be – people in their lives who are lonely and need more companionship. Just one-in-four (24%) don’t believe this is the case, though this perception varies significantly across the ILSI:
Despite their widespread recognition of loneliness in others, Canadians aren’t necessarily making a point of addressing it. Fewer than one-in-five (19%) of those who say they know someone who is lonely also regularly make a point of spending time visiting such a person:
And yet, most Canadians (62%) wish family and friends would spend more time with them. Indeed, one-in-six (15%) are wishing for “lots more” time with their own friends and family. This pattern holds true in three of the five segments.
Among the Desolate, one-in-three (33%) want “lots more” time and fully nine-in-ten (91%) want at least some more time with their friends and family. Similar proportions of the Lonely but not Isolated respond to this question in that way, while those in the Moderately Connected category are more divided (64% of them, overall, wish their friends and family spent more time with them).
It’s only those who are Isolated but not Lonely – reflecting their contentedness with being left alone – and those who are Cherished who are largely satisfied with the current amount of time they see others:
For detailed results by age, gender, region, education, and other demographics, click here[12].
For detailed results by The Index of Loneliness and Social Isolation (ILSI), click here[13].
Click here for the full report including tables and methodology[14]
Dave Korzinski, Research Associate: 250.899.0821 dave.korzinski@angusreid.org[16]
is negatively affected: https://www.aginglifecarejournal.org/health-effects-of-social-isolation-and-loneliness/
Cardus: https://www.cardus.ca/
has been described: https://www.campaigntoendloneliness.org/about-loneliness/
research suggests: https://www.bcpharmacy.ca/news/social-isolation-and-loneliness
negative health effects: https://www.bcpharmacy.ca/news/social-isolation-and-loneliness
grown significantly: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/75-006-x/2019001/article/00003-eng.htm
growing from: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/75-006-x/2019001/article/00003-eng.htm
well canvassed: https://www.canada.ca/en/national-seniors-council/programs/publications-reports/2014/social-isolation-seniors/page05.html
see index tables for greater detail: http://angusreid.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2019.05.13_Social-Isolation_ILSI-Release-Tables.pdf
read more about that here: http://angusreid.org/religion-in-canada-150/
difficult to pin down: https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-ratio-of-Introverts-to-Extroverts-in-the-general-population
here: http://angusreid.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2019.05.13_Social-Isolation-Demos_Release-Tables.pdf
here: http://angusreid.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2019.05.13_Social-Isolation_ILSI-Release-Tables.pdf
Click here for the full report including tables and methodology: http://angusreid.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/2019.06.14_Loneliness-and-Social-Isolation-Index.pdf
Click here for the questionnaire used in this survey: http://angusreid.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/2019.06.14_Loneliness-and-Social-Isolation-Questionnaire.pdf
dave.korzinski@angusreid.org: mailto:dave.korzinski@angusreid.org
Source URL: https://angusreid.org/social-isolation-loneliness-canada/
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Tips For Right-wingers On The Irs Scandal
June 5, 2013 by Ann Coulter
Instead of showing endless loops of IRS employees wasting taxpayer dollars line-dancing — Breaking news: Government employees waste millions of your dollars every single day! — I think it would be more useful for the public to hear a few crucial facts about the exploding scandal at the Internal Revenue Service.
At Tuesday’s congressional hearings on the IRS, witnesses provided shocking details about the agency’s abuse of conservative groups.
The IRS leaked the donor list of The National Organization for Marriage to their political opponents, the pro-gay-marriage Human Rights Campaign. This is not idle speculation: The documents had an internal IRS stamp on them. The list of names was then published on a number of liberal websites and NOM’s donors were harassed.
The IRS demanded that all members of the Coalition for Life of Iowa swear under penalty of perjury that they wouldn’t pray, picket or protest outside of Planned Parenthood. They were also asked to provide details of their prayer meetings.
Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash. — who was ordered by the D.C. Circuit Court to pay more than $1 million to John Boehner in 2008 for publishing an illegally taped private conversation — blamed the conservative groups themselves. “Each of your groups was highly political,” he lectured them, noting that they wouldn’t have been asked any questions if they hadn’t requested tax-exempt status.
Even a fair-minded person — not to be confused with Jim McDermott — might hear about the IRS’ harassment of groups with “tea party,” “patriot” or “liberty” in their names and think: “How do we know the IRS wasn’t equally hard on left-wing groups?”
What might be more helpful than clips of IRS staff line-dancing would be for reporters, say at Fox News, to mention a few examples of the wildly partisan left-wing groups that the IRS has certified as tax-exempt.
Among the many left-wing groups with tax-exempt status are:
— Media Matters for America, a media “watchdog” group that has never noticed one iota of pro-Obama bias in the media;
— Moveon.org, which ran ads comparing Bush to Hitler under its 501(c)(4) arm;
— The Center for American Progress, an auxiliary of the Democratic National Committee funded by George Soros and staffed by former Clinton and Obama aides to promote the Democratic agenda;
— The Tides Foundation, which funnels money to communist and terrorist-supporting organizations;
— The Ford Foundation, which funds only liberal causes and has never found a criminal law that isn’t “racist.”
— ACORN (now operating under other names, all still tax-exempt), “community organizers” who engage in profanity-laced protests at private homes, dump garbage in front of public buildings and disrupt bankers’ dinners in order to get more people on welfare, destroy the capitalist system and incite revolution;
— Occupy Wall Street, which — in its first month alone — was responsible for more than a dozen sexual assaults; at least half a dozen deaths by overdose, suicide or murder; and millions of dollars in property damage;
These groups are regarded by the IRS as nonpartisan community groups, merely educational, while dozens of patriotic, constitutional, Christian or tea party groups are still waiting for their tax exemptions.
That’s to say nothing of Planned Parenthood, PBS and innumerable other Democratic front-groups that not only have tax exemptions, but get direct funding from the government.
By contrast, the conservative groups raked over the coals by the IRS actually were nonpartisan. The tea party forced sitting Republican senators off the ticket in Alaska and Indiana, and toppled “establishment” Republicans in Utah, Delaware, Nevada, Florida and Texas. Far from being a secretly pro-Republican group, the tea party has been a nightmare for Republicans.
Show me one instance where the Center for American Progress was more of a problem for Democrats than Republicans.
It is obviously in the interest of the left to show us liberal groups also harassed by the IRS, so it’s striking that they haven’t been able to produce one yet.
Instead, they hearken back to the Bush years to claim that the IRS once audited the NAACP, which is treated as ipso facto political harassment.
First of all, the NAACP doesn’t exactly have a sterling record of rectitude when it comes to organization funds. In the 1990s, the NAACP used tax-exempt contributions to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in hush money to the mistress of then-executive director Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. — as detailed in enraged columns by Carl Rowan at the time.
Find a tea party organization that’s done that, and we’ll understand the IRS conducting a three-year proctology exam on the group.
Second, the Bush-era audit of the NAACP was prompted by a blindingly partisan speech given by NAACP chairman Julian Bond at an organization meeting in Philadelphia in July 2004. As a 501(c)(3) group, the NAACP is prohibited from supporting or opposing any candidate for elective office.
And yet Bond attacked a slew of elected Republicans by name, denouncing the entire party as one whose “idea of equal rights is the American flag and Confederate swastika flying side by side.”
That’s what we call “black-letter law” on improper activity for a tax-exempt organization.
The NAACP responded to the IRS’ letter by screaming from the rooftops that it was political payback. Consequently, Bush’s IRS commissioner requested that Treasury’s inspector general investigate the IRS’ tax-exempt unit for political bias. The IG’s report found no politics in the NAACP audit and — to the contrary — that more “pro-Republican” groups (18) than “pro-Democratic” groups (12) had been audited.
Nonetheless, the NAACP simply refused to cooperate with the IRS. There was nothing the Bush administration could do. No Republican was going to allow the NAACP’s tax-exempt status to be revoked on its watch. Two years later, the IRS simply issued a letter clearing the group.
Today, the NAACP openly engages in partisan activity, such as a current weeks-long protest of Republican legislators in North Carolina.
Finally, a tip to the Democrats trying to defend the IRS by saying, “Why would the IRS be so stupid to audit and harass only conservative Tea Party groups?” As a devoted true-crime TV viewer, I can tell you that when you’re caught red-handed, it’s never a good defense to say, “Why would I be so stupid to kill my wife right after taking out a huge life insurance policy on her?”
You were that stupid and you got caught.
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The documents adopted under China’s Presidency are available here.
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BRICS Presidency is scheduled for 2022.
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Criminal Code, Chapter 8 – Graft and Bribery - Articles 382-396 and 164, (English);
Supervision Law of the People’s Republic of China of March 20, 2018, (Chinese), (English);
Law of the People’s Republic of China against Unfair Competition of September 2, 1993, (English).
Penal Code, Chapter 25 “Crimes of Corruption”, (Japanese/English);
National Public Service Act No. 120 of October 21, 1947, along with Code of Ethics (Japanese/English);
National Public Service Ethics Act No. 129 of August 13, 1999, (Japanese/English);
Whistleblower Protection Act No. 122 of 2004, (Japanese/English)
National Public Service Ethics Code, Cabinet Order No. 101 of March 28, 2000 (Japanese/English)
National Supervisory Commission of the People’s Republic of China, (Chinese);
Hong Kong Independent Commission against Corruption, (Chinese), (English);
Commission against Corruption, Macao Special Administrative Region, (Chinese), (English).
Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office of Japan
(最高検察庁), (Japanese).
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OECD Issues Handbook on Public Integrity
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has issued the Public Integrity Handbook.
Photo: UCFFool / CC BY 2.0
This is a practical toolkit for the implementation of the OECD Recommendation on Public Integrity (published also in Russian). The Recommendation is targeted at policymakers and contains 13 rules whose respect will ensure “consistent alignment of, and adherence to, shared ethical values, principles and norms for upholding and prioritizing the public interest over private interests” in the public sector.
The Handbook is divided into 13 chapters, by number of the rules outlined in the OECD Recommendation. Each of them contains more detailed pieces of advice on how to follow the rules.
1. Commitment means high-level commitment to enhancing public integrity and reducing corruption.
In order to ensure the adherence to the principle of commitment the Handbook suggests, in the first place, formulating a clear common definition of “integrity”. The next step is to clearly state within the legislative and institutional frameworks the responsibility for managing integrity. In the Republic of Korea for example, article 3 of the Act on the Prevention of Corruption and Establishment and Management of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission requires all public organizations to take active efforts to prevent corruption and establish a culture of social ethics, whilst in the Czech Republic the current anti-corruption plan identifies the role of each individual ministry, while also identifying a government council to co-ordinate the country’s anti-corruption and public integrity. In addition, the respective responsibilities can be assigned to the public officials rather than to the public bodies, as is done in Australia (Public Service Act No. 147, 1999) and Slovakia (Law on Public Service No. 55/2017).
2. Responsibilities mean assigning responsibility to individuals/institutions for defining and enforcing integrity policies.
This principle implies the establishment of a clear system of division of responsibilities for defining, enforcing, supporting and controlling standards and instruments for the individuals engaged in the implementation of integrity policies in the public sector. A country can assign these responsibilities to a competent authority, such as the National Transparency Authority in Greece or the High Authority for Transparency in Public Life (Haute Autorité pour la Transparence de la Vie Publique, HATVP) in France, distribute them among different bodies or opt for a model according to which some functions are delegated to a competent anti-corruption body while the others are assigned to other public bodies. Each option might have its advantages and disadvantages. Besides that, the competent individuals/bodies should be provided with appropriate resources and capacities, including human resources, to fulfill their responsibilities and have the possibility to cooperate with other competent individuals in this area. In Canada for instance, the Treasury Board Secretariat, hosts as the central agency the meetings of the Interdepartmental Values and Ethics Network and the Senior Officers for Internal Disclosure Group (whistleblowing). In addition, the meetings of the Canadian Conflict of Interest Network, which comprises representatives of the federal government, commissioners from provinces and local self-government level, are held. In Austria there is the Network of Integrity Officers (Integritätsbeauftragten-Netzwerk) and in Sweden there is the Network against Corruption (Myndighetsnätverket mot korruption) that brings together the representatives of State agencies in the Swedish Agency for Public Management.
3. Strategy means setting objectives and priorities for the public integrity system and developing benchmarks and indicators to assess its effectiveness.
This principle implies the development of a clear strategy, the definition of objectives and means to achieve them, proceeding from preliminary risk assessment. This is the case of the development of the UK Anti-Corruption Strategy 2017 to 2022. Cross-government groups can be engaged in the development of the anti-corruption strategy: in Finland for example, such cross-government group included police, local government and civil society organizations. For each stage of the implementation of the strategy there should be indicators to validate the progress and to subsequently monitor the quality of implementation of anti-corruption efforts. For example, the Republic of Korea annually uses two complementary assessment frameworks: standardized surveys, in which staff from organizations, citizens and other stakeholders are asked about their experience with and perception of corruption, and performance reports, submitted by public agencies, whose information is subsequently verified by the anti-corruption body.
4. Standards mean the enforcement of standards of public officials’ behaviour.
Countries should embed in their legal systems standards of conduct, including criminalization of corruption, civil law regulation (also providing for the possibility to receive compensation for damages), administrative regulation (the rights and duties of public administrations in their relations with the public), adoption of codes of conduct (the Handbook recommends to introduce in such codes seven (plus or minus two) elements, as is done in Australia and Denmark). In addition, there should be mechanisms for the diffusion of standards and a clear system of sanctions in case of violation.
5. Whole-of-society means ensuring integrity in the organizations of the private sector and civil society.
In order to comply with this principle the States should:
establish public integrity standards in companies, which can be achieved by adopting legislation requiring companies to establish compliance programmes, as is the case of the United Kingdom and France, and/or requiring companies to submit reports on the fulfillment of integrity standards, and/or monitoring their interaction with the public sector (in Spain for instance, companies that have hired any person breaching the prohibition on providing services in private companies directly related to the competencies of the position held during the two-year cooling-off period are prohibited from contracting with any public administration);
establish integrity standards for civil society organizations;
establish and ensure the acceptance as a shared responsibility of public integrity standards by individuals by raising awareness about corruption and cultivating culture of intolerance towards corruption (for example, the anti-corruption body in Peru launched the campaign #PeruviansForReal (#Peruanosdeverdad), which filmed a YouTube video about the violation of integrity principles;
engage relevant stakeholders in developing, updating and implementing the public integrity system (for instance, in Mexico in early 2020 the National Anticorruption Policy was developed through a participative process involving civil society, business, public institutions, academia and experts from all over the country).
6. Leadership means raising awareness among public managers about integrity standards and introducing respective functions in their duties.
Both top and other managers in institutions and organizations should demonstrate their adherence to the principles of integrity. In order to do so, they should regularly participate in relevant training: in Germany for instance, the Federal Academy of Public Administration has established a coaching centre for training public leaders; the Flemish region of Belgium has set up a joint training programme with the Netherlands, whereby top managers are trained in coaching colleagues, which favours the exchange of practical experience.
7. Merit means a system where employment and appraisal of officials are based on their personal and professional qualities.
Qualification and performance criteria for positions, open application processes and oversight and recourse mechanisms should be established to this end. In the United States for instance, the Merit Systems Protection Board, an independent, quasi-judicial agency, is empowered to set and update the standards of employment and appraisal of personnel, hear complaints and decide on corrective or disciplinary action when an agency is alleged to have committed a prohibited personnel practice.
8. Capacity building means raising awareness, building knowledge and skills and providing guidance and advice also on how to adhere to the principles of integrity.
For this principle to be respected it is necessary to ensure that:
information about integrity policies, rules and administrative procedures is up-to-date and available. For example, in Mexico the Ministry of Public Administration (Secretaría de la Función Pública) diffuses posters, explaining what each specific public service value, outlined in articles 7-11 of the Code of Ethics for the Federal Government Officials of Mexico, means (legality, honesty, loyalty, impartiality and efficiency);
on-the-job integrity training and other activities take place regularly to raise awareness. For instance, in Lithuania all new public officials are required to take part in mandatory induction training. In the United States, in addition to the mandatory induction training, certain categories of employees are required by the Code of Federal Regulation to follow additional annual ethics training (see §2638.307 and §2638.308 of Title V of the Code of Federal Regulations);
guidance and consultation mechanisms for consistently applying integrity standards in public officials’ daily work are in place, well known and accessible. In France for example, the HATVP provides individual confidential advice upon request to the highest ranking public officials and in Poland integrity advisors are appointed in government administration offices.
9. Openness means encouraging an open culture in the public sector where any public integrity concerns can be discussed freely, and ensuring that clear rules, procedures and channels are in place to report suspected violations.
The establishment of mechanisms for the protection of whistleblowers is particularly critical for the fulfillment of this principle: direct prohibition of reprisals against whistleblowers and sanctions against retaliation, legal protection mechanisms (return to employment after unfair termination, compensatory damages), clear investigative procedures and timely responses to reports, publishing the number and nature of cases, etc. In addition, it is important to create appropriate institutional environment: in Canada for example, the Office of the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner, in charge of investigation and resolution of complaints, is an independent body reporting to Parliament only.
10. Risk Management means conducting risk assessments, developing risk-management systems and adopting measures to minimize risks and ensuring internal control mechanisms for responding to suspicions of violations of laws and regulations.
As corruption risks vary by sectors and bodies/organizations a “tailored approach” is an important element of the system of risk management and assessing integrity risks. The Government can also provide guidance support to bodies/organizations in developing risk assessment mechanisms, as is the case of Canada, or advice, as, for example, in France. In addition, risk assessment systems require systematic monitoring and evaluation of their effectiveness and respective amendments in the event that the functions/structure of a body/organization have/has undergone substantial changes. For instance, in the United Kingdom, HM Revenue and Customs uses its monthly Performance Report to measure progress against objectives and to identify areas of performance requiring further action. In the Netherlands the Office for the Promotion of Public Sector Integrity (Bureau Integriteitsbevordering Openbare Sector), the Integrity Office of the Municipality of Amsterdam (Bureau Integriteit de gemeente Amsterdam), and the Netherlands Court of Audit (Algemene Rekenkamer) jointly developed the IntoSAINT. This integrity self-assessment tool enables public sector organizations to evaluate their vulnerability and resilience to integrity violations, and provides recommendations on how to improve integrity management.
11. Enforcement means enforcing proceedings in line with the principles of fairness, objectivity and timeliness in case of violations, enhancing transparency of enforcement mechanisms and ensuring accountability.
A comprehensive integrity system should provide for a fair, objective and timely enforcement of criminal, civil and/or disciplinary penalties for violations, mechanisms for oversight, co-ordination, co-operation and exchange of information between relevant entities in the context of application of these penalties and development of tools for ensuring transparency of enforcement mechanisms, while respecting privacy and confidentiality.
12. Oversight means reinforcing the role of external oversight and control within the public integrity system.
External oversight and control mechanisms can include ombudsmen, supreme audit institutions (SAI), administrative courts and courts of general jurisdiction and regulatory enforcement agencies. The division of control functions depends on the country: for example, in Austria the Court of Audit (Rechnungshof Österreich) is a major player in the integrity system, which assesses if existing mechanisms are suitable to prevent corruption within public organizations, and publishes the recommendations to increase transparency as well as public scrutiny and awareness of these issues. At the same time it is fundamental to ensure that these bodies are independent: Canada and Norway have developed policies and standards for the managers of regulatory agencies regarding the revolving door situations.
13. Participation means promoting transparency of public bodies, granting citizens access in the development of public policies and encouraging a society that includes “watchdog” entities.
This principle provides for:
ensuring the transparency and openness of public bodies, in particular, by guaranteeing timely response to requests for access to information (for example, a response is due within 5 days in Estonia, 10 in Portugal, and 15 in Finland and Poland) and providing access to open data;
involving stakeholders in the policy-making process through focus groups, expert panels, surveys and public consultations;
encourage public scrutiny of conflict-of interest situations, asset and interest disclosures (publication of interest declarations, as in France, Latvia and Mexico or summaries of declarations of assets, as in Spain), lobbying activities (through an open online register, as is the case in Canada, France and Ireland) and financing of political parties and electoral campaigns.
The Handbook is complemented by the OECD Public Integrity Maturity Models, an instrument for self-assessment of the “degree of maturity” of the adopted public integrity measures. It allows countries to assess where they are situated in relation to the implementation of each of the 13 OECD principles through answering a set of questions. As a follow-up, the Organization also intends to issue the OECD Public Integrity Indicators and the Public Integrity Toolkit.
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Archives Hub: University of Manchester Special Collections (ELGAR)
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About Special Collections
U.M.I.S.T. and predecessor bodies Publications Collection: Newspapers, Magazines and Newsletters
Bookmark:https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/manchesteruniversity/data/gb133-tmp
GB 133 TMP
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology Students Union
2 li.m. 442 items
The collection is kept at the University Archive and Records Centre , main University Library.
An artificial collection of newspaper and magazines published by UMIST and its predecessor bodies, the UMIST Students Union and various departments and societies.The oldest magazine in the collection is The Journal of the Municipal School of Technology, Manchester, published from 1902 to the 1920s. An institution-wide journal does not appear to have been published again until Advance in the 1960s. The main students magazines were Technowledge, published from the mid-1950s until around 1970, and Grip, the Union newspaper published from the early 1980s until 2005.
The collection is an invaluable source of information about the academic activities of UMIST, particularly research work of departments and individual staff, the social, political and cultural activities of the student body, and initiatives such as fundraising, new buildings, and major events.
Administrative / Biographical History
A number of newspapers and magazines were published by the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, and its predecessor bodies, the Manchester Municipal College (School) of Technology (1902-1956), and the Manchester College of Science and Technology (1956-1965). Some of these were issued centrally by the institution or by its departments to communicate official information and publicise news of important activities.
The UMIST Students Union also published newspapers and magazines, and these publications have been significant for transmitting and reflecting the opinions and beliefs of the student body. Magazines have also been produced for another constituency, the alumni.
These publications were mostly produced for the consumption of academic staff and University-level students; there is no evidence of a publication produced specifically by or for the large body of vocational students, who formed the majority of the student body until the 1950s. Staff and students within the Faculty of Technology would also have written for and read newspapers and magazines produced by the University of Manchester, and the University's Students Union.
The collection is subdivided into: College/University publications (TMP/1), Student publications (TMP/2) and alumni publications (TMP/3) as follows:
TMP/1/1 - The Journal of the Municipal School of Technology, Manchester
TMP/1/2 - Journal of the Municipal School of Technology Textile Society
TMP/1/3 - Advance
TMP/1/4 - UMIST Times
TMP/1/5 - Technology Senior Union Newsletter
TMP/1/6 - Research Focus
TMP/2/1 - Technowledge
TMP/2/2 - T.N.T.: the new Technowledge
TMP/2/3 - Grip
TMP/2/4 - Grip: Down and Out
TMP/2/5 - Gripling
TMP/3/1 - Mainstream
The collection is open to any accredited reader.
Photocopies and photographic copies of material in the archive can be supplied for private study purposes only, depending on the condition of the documents.
A number of items within the archive remain within copyright under the terms of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988; it is the responsibility of users to obtain the copyright holder's permission for reproduction of copyright material for purposes other than research or private study.
Prior written permission must be obtained from the Library for publication or reproduction of any material within the archive. Please contact the Head of Special Collections, John Rylands University Library, 150 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 3EH.
This collection of newspapers and magazines was maintained at various sites at the former UMIST, including the Library and the Students Union, and was transferred to the University Archives between 2004-2008.
Occasional accruals possible, including items currently missing from the collection.
See also the similar collection of newspapers and magazines for the University of Manchester (UMP).
Universities and colleges PeriodicalsEngland Manchester
College students England Manchester Societies etc.
Student newspapers and periodicals England Manchester
Universities and colleges Social aspects England Manchester
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology 1965-2004
Manchester College of Science and Technology 1956-1965
Manchester Municipal College of Technology 1915-1956
Manchester Municipal School of Technology 1902-1915
Geographical Names
U.M.I.S.T. and predecessor bodies Publications Collection: Newspapers, Magazines and NewslettersTMP
Publications of Manchester Municipal College of Technology/UMISTTMP/1
UMIST Student publicationsTMP/2
Alumni publicationsTMP/3
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Reza Ziai
Reza Ziai has a master's degree in psychology and is currently an adjunct lecturer at the City University of New York. He is also a writer and a free thinker. His interests include dissonance, music, and evolution.
Audio Article — My Apostasy from the Church of Critical Theory
In virtually every class, I was told that all scientific knowledge, and even science itself was founded on Western cultural constructions and was to be regarded as hegemonic.
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The Curious Case of Jordan Peterson
Few have reigned as steady and strong a champion of free speech as well as an opponent of political correctness as University of Toronto professor of psychology, Jordan Peterson. Over the…
The Evolutionary Roots of Identity Politics
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In recent years, many individuals on the political left have been earnestly conveying the message that what a person is attracted to (i.e. mate preference) is entirely constructed by the…
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Thumbs Up! Tony Host James Corden Made Broadway’s Biggest Night a Fun, Farcical & Fantastic Affair
June 12th, 2016 | By Ryan Gilbert
Now that the 2016 Tony Awards are over, let's take a moment to talk about how perfectly entertaining James Corden was as the evening's emcee. Corden kicked off the ceremony with a heartfelt message about the devastating attack in Orlando, Florida, saying: "Theater is a place where every race, creed, sexuality and gender is embraced and is loved. Hate will never win. Together, we will make sure of that. Tonight's show is a symbol and a celebration of that principle. This is the Tony Awards." Corden then spent the next three hours showing off all of his many talents, including his cheeky sense of humor, his (Tony Award-winning!) singing and dancing chops and, of course, his uncanny ability to keep genuine smiles painted on everyone's faces. We immediately fell for his early musical number where Corden joyously celebrated all of the theater roles he's dreamed of playing ever since he was a young boy, including Jean Valjean (Les Miserables), Simba (The Lion King), Danny Zuko (Grease), Maria Rainer (The Sound of Music), Annie (Annie), Tevye (Fiddler on the Roof) and, naturally, Mama Rose (Gypsy). For the rest of the night, Corden kept the show moving right along while also eliciting chuckles from guests inside the Beacon Theatre and audiences at home. His bit about all of the Law & Order acting credits Broadway stars have, especially Danny Burstein (we counted seven!), had us LOL-ing. But most importantly, Corden kept the inclusive message of "This could be you!" at the forefront of the show, and that is exactly the right note for a show that celebrates the magic of Broadway and live theater. Hosting the Tony Awards is a challenging gig, but Corden pulled it off with ease. As far as we're concerned, Corden has our love, our praise, and we'll love him till our dying days.
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linda burney first speech analysis
And she issued a message to young Indigenous Australians. Burney has also served as National President of the ALP. She explains what it is she stands for, who the people of her electorate are, and the background she has come from. There was never a question of being anything but a Labor member, she said. The first decade of my life was spent as a non-citizen.”, "I saw an old man, Mother. Burney, 59, is the ALP member for Barton (NSW). SPEECH - WEDNESDAY, 12 FEBRUARY 2020 . (ABC News: Adam Kennedy) The outline of the sulphur crested cockatoo was burned freehand into the kangaroo skin cloak worn by Ms Burney as she began the speech. The white cockatoo is … Linda Burney MP, tells the story of her kangaroo skin cloak in maiden speech at Parliament House. Donning a cloak detailing her … She promised to push for education, a reduction in the rate of juvenile imprisonment and the end of domestic violence. Federal Labor frontbencher and Wiradjuri woman Linda Burney says Australia did experience true apartheid for much of its history. Burney uses this opportunity to describe the role of politics as she sees it, with particular attention given to the themes … Watch: Linda Burney includes Wiradjuri song as part of maiden speech “I was born at a time when the Australian Government knew how many sheep there were, but not how many Aboriginal people. The usual rules of the Lower House were relaxed to allow Wiradjuri woman Lynette Riley to sing the Labor MP into the house from the public gallery. "Young men and women from both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal backgrounds understand what that election means.". Linda Burney (ALP-Barton) - First Speech (Aug 31, 2016) - Duration: 35:50. When he told a story he traced the fold in a tablecloth with his forefinger just like you. “If I can stand in this place, so can they – never let anyone tell you, you are limited by anything.”, Available for everyone, funded by readers. She paid tribute to her late partner former politician Rick Farley, saying the world was a worse place without him. The first Indigenous female MP elected to the House of Representatives has delivered the opening of her maiden speech in her native language. "This is not just about a portrait of me, this is about those who have come before me and those who will come after,” she said. The former New South Wales MP joked it was ironic her federal seat of Barton – named after former prime minister Edmund Barton who introduced the white Australia policy – was now one of the most multicultural in the country. Linda Burney, the first indigenous woman to be elected to the House of Representatives, delivered her maiden speech today. “However I say to my elders, that the last bit may not always apply in question time.”. She told the federal parliament on Wednesday she was deeply moved to have journeyed to a “powerful place”. ", Linda Burney strikes a pose as her portrait was unveiled at Parliament House. Linda Burney addressed the House of Representatives on the Financial Sector Reform (Hayne Royal Commission Response—Protecting Consumers (2019 Measures)) Bill 2019 - Wednesday, … The first Indigenous woman elected to the House of Representatives, Linda Burney, has slammed calls for the watering down of the Racial Discrimination Act during her maiden speech. She won … Watch: Linda Burney includes Wiradjuri song as part of maiden speech, “I was born at a time when the Australian Government knew how many sheep there were, but not how many Aboriginal people. February 05, 2020 Thousands of Indigenous families ripped off by dodgy funeral insurers February 05, 2020 / Daryl Tan. She invited the chamber to imagine what it was like for a 13-year-old girl who was told at school her ancestors were the closest thing to stone-age men. (AAP). Donning a cloak detailing her personal story, Labor MP Linda Burney invited fellow Wiradjuri woman Lynette Riley to sing a traditional song from the gallery. The cloak showed Burney’s clan totem, the goanna, and her personal totem, the white cockatoo, which she said was “very noisy”. I was 10-years-old before the ‘67 referendum fixed that. February 12, 2020 / Daryl Tan / Daryl Tan. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. “The Aboriginal part of my story is important, it is the core of who I am,” she said. All rights reserved. What is it: In this speech, Linda Burney, the first Aboriginal woman to be elected to the House of Representatives, gives her inaugural speech to Parliament in 2016. LINDA BURNEY . 'Being born Aboriginal was a complete scandal,' how Linda Burney's childhood drives her today. She was previously a member of the NSW Parliament, a minister in the last Labor government, and deputy leader of the Opposition between 2011 and 2016. Burney reflected on the February 2008 apology to Australia’s Indigenous peoples by the Rudd Labor government, carrying an empty coolamon – or wooden vessel – into parliament. “People in our community know that the invisible hand of the market cares little for the needs of the most disadvantaged.”. “As a little girl she was taught, in her words, that she was descended from people who are as close to the stone age as possible,” Mr Shorten said. But I will not be stereotyped’, Wed 31 Aug 2016 04.51 EDT The member for Barton’s portrait, painted by New South Wales artist Jude Rae, was commissioned for Parliament’s Historic Memorials Collection in recognition of her election. “But I will not be stereotyped and I will not be pigeon-holed.”. 'Apartheid did exist in this country', Linda Burney reminds conservatives. Wiradjuri woman sings Linda Burney into parliament for her maiden speech, first Indigenous female MP elected to the House of Representatives. 35:50. Oprah Winfrey talks with Thich Nhat Hanh Excerpt - Powerful - … “These lands are, always were and always will be Aboriginal land,” she said. “I wish in this house … to be respectful, to be gentle and be polite,” she told parliament. “The fact that it has taken 119 years to unveil a portrait of an Aboriginal woman as a member of parliament is embarrassing.”. Linda Burney made history when she became the first Aboriginal woman to enter the House of Representatives in 2016, but behind the confident Wiradjuri woman is … Malcolm Farnsworth 16,529 views. It will hang alongside other paintings of significant firsts in Australia’s parliament including the first woman elected, Dame Enid Lyons; and the first Indigenous man elected, Senator Neville Bonner. A painting of the proud Wiradjuri woman takes a permanent place in Canberra’s Parliament House. The first Indigenous female MP elected to the House of Representatives has delivered the opening of her maiden speech in her native language. Burney tells parliamentary colleagues: ‘the Aboriginal part of my story is important, it is the core of who I am. An “inspiration” was how Bill Shorten described the first Aboriginal woman elected to Australia’s House of Representatives. Last modified on Tue 13 Mar 2018 12.35 EDT. The Opposition Leader said he saw “a story of hope” when he looked at the new official portrait of Labor MP Linda Burney, which was unveiled at Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday morning. Ms Burney said she was “humbled” by the portrait unveiling. But the chamber felt a long way from that, she said. Constitutional recognition in the nation’s birth certificate was the next step for the parliament and country in the reconciliation journey, she said. Labor MP Linda Burney shares a moment with Opposition Leader Bill Shorten. Linda Burney made history when she became the first Aboriginal woman to enter the House of Representatives in 2016, but behind the confident Wiradjuri woman is a painful past that she says helped shape the leader she has become today.
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Catherine Barnett
Visiting Associate Professor
Catherine Barnett is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, and a Pushcart Prize. Her most recent book, The Game of Boxes, published by Graywolf Press in 2012, won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets for an outstanding second book. She is also the author of Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced, which received the Beatrice Hawley Award and was published in 2004 by Alice James Books. Barnett has taught at Barnard, the New School, and NYU, where she was honored with an Outstanding Service Award.
Photo by Jacqueline Mia Foster.
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Posted inHealth, Magazine, Social
The black dog
by Jess Soutar Barron September 5, 2012 September 4, 2015
The Black Dog is costing us. High rates of those claiming a sickness benefit cite mental illness as the chief reason. Over half of patients seeing their GP are presenting with some level of psychological distress. Nearly one and a half million prescriptions a year are being filled for antidepressants. The DHB is funnelling resources into assisting those classed as severe; the greater number of mild and moderate cases are seen by GPs, or are not seeking help at all.
Life is fast paced, busy and full. For many it’s just too much. Throw in any number of relationship, employment, financial (and other) pressures and the Black Dog can turn feral.
The meaning of life, our search for gratification, our sense of curiosity, are all elements of what we term the human condition. It’s in all of us, in different forms and concentrations. It’s the thing that brings us wonder, creativity, joie de vivre.
There’s a dark side too to the human condition, especially when difficult life circumstances, genetic makeup, traumatic experiences and chemistry come in to play. People sometimes struggle to cope with the day-to-day. Some turn to medication, others self-medicate, some people find a way to ask for help, a few don’t make it out the other side.
In its Annual Plan, the Hawke’s Bay District Health Board (DHB) outlines its overarching approach to health. Key strategies include “better, sooner, more convenient” care, enhancing the capacity and capability of primary and community-based providers, and increasing focus on wellness and supported self-care. This approach is applied to all health, whether it’s mental or physical.
“As we move progressively towards the more minor mental health problems … the emphasis has to be on equipping primary care, communities and families to support those who need help,” says DHB clinical director of mental health Dr Simon Shaw.
The DHB does put resource into mental health; in 2011-12 it budgeted around $37 million for mental health (about 8.6% of its total budget). But the DHB focuses its activities on those ‘severely affected’ and, to an increased extent, is clumping mental illness and addiction services together. For those presenting with mild or moderate mental illness, sometimes seen as depression and anxiety, the DHB relies on Primary Health Organisations to coordinate support through primary health providers, like GPs.
GPs the point of entry
Dr David Doig has been in general practice in Havelock North for ten years.
“We’re the 50 cent psychiatrist, to put it bluntly,” says Doig. “The barriers are that you need to be tremendously unwell to attract the services of the hospital.”
Barriers are also raised by the need to fund support once a suitable avenue for help is found. Although patients can occasionally access up to six free sessions, counsellors and psychologists don’t come cheap, with $150 a session the average.
“Being psychologically unwell is quite challenging financially,” says Doig, who estimates one out of every four patients he sees would be primarily dealing with a psychological illness.
“And in two or three out of every four there is an element of psychological distress,” he says.
Although the numbers are high, he sees 110 patients every week (alongside the 140 some of his colleagues may see), Doig believes it is only the tip of the iceberg. “The levels of hidden mental illness are pretty enormous. People are very good at hiding things from family and friends.”
Around 15% of New Zealanders (WHO figures) suffer from mild or moderate anxiety, and often it is left untreated. Only the US figures are higher (27%). The last mental health survey carried out nationally in New Zealand – Te Rau Hinengargo, 2006 – found that a large proportion of people developing mental health problems, even severe ones, never sought or obtained healthcare at any level.
For most, the process of seeking help – if they do – starts by visiting their GP.
“Everyone is quite different and they approach us in different ways. Some people come in with what they think are physical problems – lungs, heart, brain – some are dragged in by someone else. It’s very individual.”
GPs then have a range of resources to help people, of which one is antidepressant medication. Counselling, psychotherapy and sessions with Weleda’s nurses are other options.
The government-funded Primary Mental Health Initiative is designed to assist people experiencing their first episode of psychological illness in the mild-to-moderate category. After a screening test GPs can refer patients for four fully-funded counselling sessions. But the initiative is capped. For the 11 doctors and 10,000 patients at Doig’s practice there are only 11 places on the initiative every quarter.
“The mental health service is stretched very thin. They are under pressure to see people with the highest need. There’s a high turnover of staff. It’s a high-pressure area of medicine. They should get the best conditions but they tend to be the poorest.”
Doig cites comedian Mike King and sportsman John Kirwan as real heroes in terms of mental health advocacy. Few people are willing to talk openly about their own mental health.
“John Kirwan’s impact has been quite extraordinary, especially in terms of New Zealand men coming in.”
OECD figures mark depression as the leading cause of disability in high-income countries. Although overall the prevalence of mental disorders is about the same among men and women, depression is more common among women, with men more likely to experience substance-abuse disorders.
A recent study by Dr Kate Scott and Associate Professor Sunny Collings of University of Otago has found men with anxiety or depression have more difficulty functioning on a social level than women.
“Women are more likely than men to experience mood and anxiety disorders. What is new is our finding that among men and women with those disorders, it is actually men who experience greater difficulties in role, social and cognitive functioning,” says Scott, who suggests the findings should be taken on board by health providers, clinicians and policy makers.
Dr David Doig believes the pathway towards becoming well again is very specific to each individual.
“It’s the patient’s journey and they have to be ready for it. Just coming to us, discussing things, identifying solutions, that may be enough for some people.
We will see some people who simply want chemicals to fix the problem, and there is a place for antidepressants. Probably as many as 60% benefit, there’s a percentage who are made worse, and a percentage where there is no effect at all.”
Medications have pros and cons
Journalist Lindy Andrews has first-hand knowledge of the mental health ‘journey’ and antidepressant medication.
“You have to sort out depression from sadness. Depression is a very different animal. It’s called the Black Dog, and it really is a blackness that dogs you.”
After years struggling with her own health, Andrews has become an advocate for a raised awareness around what antidepressant medication can do.
In 1993 a number of significant stressors – at work, in her relationship and with family – meant Andrews began experiencing panic attacks, she couldn’t sleep and she had trouble compartmentalising. Her GP suggested Arapax, one of the first selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) brought into New Zealand.
“At first the medication gave me energy, it flattened me emotionally, it made me impervious to stressors.” But within a month Andrews was also experiencing physical problems. “I developed a movement disorder, I was beginning to lose clear speech and I had to stop work.”
Andrews spent 16 years on antidepressants and it took until 2009 to discover her increasing disability was an adverse reaction to antidepressants, specifically SSRIs.
“Over time I progressed from Arapax to Prozac to Cipramil. I was prescribed them for anxiety, but they could be prescribed for depression, anxiety, pain relief. Until the early 2000s it was believed they had no side effects.”
There is certainly more information available today, with most drugs having been used for five or six years overseas before coming to New Zealand. Drug side effects, while now clearly stated, are still staggering. One such drug, Efexor-XR (advertising in the Listener, 25 Aug 2012), lists “common side effects” that “include stomach, bowel, urinary tract problems, headache, difficulty sleeping, drowsiness, dizziness, nervousness, confusion, agitation, muscle tremor or weakness, fast heart beat, menstrual problems, weight loss, sweating, hot flushes, hair loss, bleeding or bruising more easily than normal, changes in your eye sight, sexual function problems.”
“For a great number of people these medications do work,” says Andrews. “Although I had a severe adverse reaction, I wouldn’t recommend anyone suddenly stop taking their meds. It’s vital people talk to their GP or psychiatrist first.”
However, Andrews is clear that if she had her time again she would think carefully before taking antidepressants. Over the last twenty years she has found other things that help tremendously with her anxiety and depression.
“At the time I took medication I was under extreme stress. In retrospect there were several things I could have done differently. I could have learned to relax, I could have taken more exercise, improved my diet, had some counselling. But, like many people who live in this truly fast-paced world of ours, when I was offered a quick fix, I took it.”
Verona Nicholson is a counsellor who practices psychotherapy. She has been in private practice for over thirty years and in Hawke’s Bay for eleven.
Her experience is that medication used to get through the day can also help facilitate personal work with a counsellor.
“For some people meds can give them a foot up so they can address things. It can give them some stability so they can go to a counsellor when they might otherwise not even be able to get out of bed,” says Nicholson.
One in four suffers from mental health issues, but what does that look like on a day-to-day level? In the personal stories told here, names have been changed to protect the anonymity of those interviewed. Although it is discrimination, insurers, employers, landlords, even some friends and family, make judgements on people with a mental health diagnosis. The people whose stories are told here are living in Hawke’s Bay, and have recent experience with mental health and its service providers.
Rae is 38 and has cared for her step-daughter Emma, now 17, since she was a toddler. Rae is married and has three younger children.
“When Emma came to us she had lots of issues. She had no rules, no routine. I took her to specialists and they’d always say it was a social issue.
“At school, the counsellor saw her every day from when she was 5 to 12. She was brilliant and she helped us a lot. During that time Emma went to Australia for four weeks to see her mother. After she came home we got a letter saying we were being done for sexual abuse of Emma. Her mother had signed an affidavit saying Emma had told her these things. I ended up taping phone calls and in one Emma’s mother let it slip that it was lies. Eventually we were cleared. In the meantime Emma went through hell.
“Then Emma’s mother cut her off. No presents, no letters, no phone calls, no nothing. We didn’t hear from her for five years. And as she got older things got more and more complicated.
“I ended up going to Directions Youth to get help for her – I knew she wasn’t right – but it didn’t really help her and they couldn’t tell me what was wrong because of confidentiality. She’d go through moments of serenity and calmness, then for a month we didn’t know what might happen, she’d really go off the rails.
“When she was 15 her mother rang out of the blue. Within 48hrs she’d gotten into my meds and taken a lot of them. She tried to knock herself off.
“I took Emma to my GP and he prescribed an antidepressant and referred her to the DHB. A psychiatrist there talked to her for a few hours. He felt she had long-term depression. We went to the psychiatrist for eight sessions and then she was supposed to be miraculously cured.
“She was on antidepressants for a whole year. They were good for her but she didn’t like taking them.
“She was physically violent. She’d spend a lot of time alone in her room. She went from rages to sombre moods to being fine. When she gets backed into a corner her first thing is to lie and manipulate. That’s what she’s figured out works for her.
“When Emma turned 17, she was drinking and she wasn’t doing so well at school, then her half-brother turned up – she hadn’t seen him since she was little. A month later she hit rock bottom, it was April this year.
“I took her back to the GP, he said she needed to go back on antidepressants. She refused. Then a few weeks ago she threatened to kill herself. I didn’t believe her, but I rang the hospital. They told me to make sure sharp objects and pills were kept away from her! That was their advice. A few days later a social worker met with us. After a one-hour conversation he wrote a report on her. It was a very slanted view. It didn’t show the depression, stress or anxiety we see at home. What she needs is a no-nonsense psychiatrist who can get into her head.
“Because she’s over 16 I can’t make her see a counsellor but because she’s under 18 I have to have her living in my house. I know she needs help and I’ve found her that help since she was five, but now no one can do anything to help her until she signs a bit of paper, and she won’t do that.
“Until she turns 18 we walk on egg shells waiting for the next big thing, it’s like watching a tornado coming towards you. I don’t have a problem with sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll – you know the demons you are playing with. Mental health is like fighting a ghost.”
Kim is 41. Divorced with two pre-teen children, she is a professional working in the health industry.
“My personal experience was that I’ve had shit years for as long as I can remember and the only thing that changed was to see it reoccurring in my children.
“I’d always had the perception that life was hard, that it wasn’t fair and that what happens in your life is of your own making – you can’t really turn around and complain. When things went wrong I felt it was my fault and therefore I didn’t deserve any help.
“Eighteen months ago I crashed with my past and I couldn’t hold it back. I had a breakdown to such an extent as I couldn’t look after my children anymore. One day I got up, I dropped the kids at school like normal, I said goodbye to them at the gate, I got in the car and I drove for hours. I just wanted to disappear. I had no plan except to get away.
“My personal experience is not that I wanted to die. What is true is you get to a point where you can’t keep going. It’s like walking through treacle. You can see the door but physical exhaustion means you can’t get across the room.
“I went into my GP and said I wanted antidepressants. I said I needed to take care of my children and he had to help me. The GP made me see a counsellor, initially for six sessions. He wouldn’t give me drugs until I agreed to that. I was very defensive and it’s true to say I only did counselling so I could get the drugs. I was very clear I had no intention of lying on the couch for years and years – I wanted tools.
“The most cathartic thing was just telling my story. Getting it out of my head. You can’t answer all the questions all at once – you peel off the issues and leave them sitting there to unpack later. I left tons of weight in that room. I felt lighter but also the drugs would have kicked in by then.
“The medication I take is almost ritualistic now. I don’t question it. My GP told me I have to take it for two years and so that’s given me two years to begin to sort things. Then I’ll reassess.
“When it comes to medication, there was no minute when I suddenly said ‘wow I feel great’. It made no discernable difference until maybe six months down the track – it just smoothed things out. The highs weren’t so high, the lows weren’t so low. It hasn’t made life happier and it doesn’t answer any questions.
“I was in my mid-twenties when my father took his own life. It’s obvious that genetics is part of my picture and it’s stupid of me to think I would escape some kind of mental health issue – it was the package I came with.
“Depression for me was when I became overwhelmed with choices, emotions, decisions and exhaustion – it’s so overwhelming you can’t think, and your brain and your body just stop. I physically couldn’t get up in the morning. I couldn’t do normal things. I was immobilised by it.
“I feel so lucky to have had that breakdown, without it I would have gone on as if nothing was wrong with no room for transformation. I feel very hopeful about the future. I’m not there yet – and that’s exciting – but don’t get me wrong, it’s terrifying too.”
Happy pills
It has been twenty years since Prozac and what’s known as the new generation of antidepressants became available in New Zealand. Every year use of the drugs climbs steeply. Prescribing has nearly quadrupled since 1993. Pharmac estimates 400,000 New Zealanders are on antidepressants.
Each year about 1.4 million prescriptions for antidepressants are filled. This is up 36.6% from 1 million in 2006. There are 18 antidepressants on the New Zealand market, with three added in the last few years.
Hawke’s Bay is on the lower end of the figures with about 12,000 scripts filled each year.
Dr Peter Moodie, medical director of Pharmac, says the peak of spending on antidepressants was ten years ago. In 2003, we spent about $30 million. Now, $20 million each year is spent on the drugs. “Although the numbers have gone up, the prices have gone down,” Moodie notes.
At the mild-to-moderate end of the mental health spectrum, the question is whether to treat at all, says University of Otago’s head of primary health care and general practice, Professor Tony Dowell. With the average length of time for depression being around three months and often linked to a traumatic event, such as a job loss or marriage break-up, should we even treat mild-to-moderate depression?
Another expert in the field of antidepressant medication, Professor David Healy from the University of Cardiff has received press here in New Zealand and internationally for claiming drugs may be more of a hindrance than a help in cases of depression. He believes only one out of every ten prescribed so-called ‘happy pills’ is helped by them. He also feels pharmaceutical companies hide evidence about the effectiveness and risks associated with psychiatric drugs.
Distressed youth
For many, teenage years can be when mental health issues first show themselves. Diagnostically it may be referred to as ‘adjustment disorder’. Some young people have a shaky time and get through; for others, what manifests in adolescence stays put long after.
Fiona Rainbow has been a counsellor at Directions Youth Health in Hastings for nearly seven years. She works with 10-24 year olds.
“Thirteen to sixteen is a particularly difficult period and people often need more support than just their parents. Schools have counsellors and there is help at the Napier Family Centre and Family Works, but some want anonymity. We have a free service for youth and that encourages young people to take control of their own health,” Rainbow explains.
In the years she’s been at Directions, only two or three clients have been prescribed antidepressants, although a number of others have come to see her while already on medication.
“If there is a struggle that’s persistent, that’s affecting life, we talk about medication as a support while we’re doing therapeutic work.”
Adolescence can be a trial for some but there are often other things at work when mental illness presents itself.
Fiona Rainbow: “There are hormonal changes and changes in the limbic system, and if you add time, drugs, alcohol, predisposition, the impact of friends who have perhaps committed suicide, vulnerability – there’s a lot of things at work.”
Societal changes mean young people are perhaps not as prepared for the ups and downs of life than they may have been in the past.
“In our two-minute-noodle society we are less trained and less familiar with strategies to live through hard times as humans. There’s a lack of richness and depth of understanding that life is a mixture of hard and good,” says Rainbow.
A major drive is currently taking place focused on the mental health of youth. Over the next four years the Government will spend $62 million overhauling mental health resources to ensure they are “youth-friendly and technologically up-to-date” (John Key, April 2012). This will include investigation of technology, such as Facebook, smartphone apps and online pop-ups, and $2.7 million in funding for computer administered “e-therapy” tailored for young people that can be carried out at home.
While many people, once they have come through it, talk about their mental health experiences in the past tense, Fiona Rainbow is in the thick of it. The immediacy of her work makes it a vital link in the mental health equation.
“Working with young people is very ‘live’. It’s happening now. While it’s happening you can hear them, honour them, give them strategies. There are things you can do to really help before it becomes ‘for life’.”
“Gone After A Long Illness. At Peace Now.”
For the legions of people accessing some form of mental health help, there are one or two who don’t make it through. Suicide is not something we talk about openly in our society. Most people know someone affected, but in obituaries and eulogies we use euphemisms to protect ourselves from painful questions: could I have done something more to help?
GP Dr David Doig: “In the first five years of practice I was very nervous about what might happen if I got it wrong. Now it’s more a recognition that even if you do everything right there are some who will not be saved, and I think in the approaching decade we may see more.”
Data published in April 2012 by the Ministry of Health showed 111 suicides in Hawke’s Bay from 2005-2009. Every year there are 500 across New Zealand with 2,500 intentional self-harm hospitalisations. Men are three times more likely to suicide. The highest risk ages are 15-29 and 45-54.
Sometimes suicide comes out of the blue, but often people have been seen at some stage by a health professional.
DHB’s clinical director of Mental Health Dr Simon Shaw: “Very sadly we do see suicides occurring from time to time in people in contact with mental health services. This is partly due to the fact that, just like severe heart disease or severe lung disease, severe mental illness does sometimes result in a fatal outcome despite everyone’s best efforts. It is an enduring myth that every single suicide is preventable. If a person is determined to carry out a suicidal act and doesn’t tell anyone of their intentions then prevention is very hard.”
Verona Nicholson feels that seeking support can itself often come after a long journey, “A real hurdle is that it’s hard to ask for help. There’s a culture of ‘you should be able to manage’. There has been some shame attached to it, creating an attitude that if you sought help you were mentally ill, as opposed to being a person who was suffering and didn’t know what to do about it. And further that you couldn’t seek help unless you were feeling extremely mentally unwell. But the more mentally unwell you are, the more disenfranchised you become, and the harder it is to get help.”
“Sometimes people don’t know where to start. In many ways you have to hit bottom before you can begin to climb out,” says Nicholson.
Lindy Andrews certainly hit rock bottom, two fold, the mark left on her by SSRIs overshadows that left by the anxiety she began feeling twenty years ago.
“There are tremendous pressures placed on women anyway: raising children, holding down a job, staying fit and healthy, doing the majority of domestic chores at home. Add some stressors, then it’s basic laws of physics: for every action there’s an opposite and equal reaction. But we don’t want to put a halt on our lives long enough to get better.”
Lindy’s advice for anyone first identifying the need to talk to a GP about mental health is this: “Don’t expect a GP to do it in ten minutes, so make a double appointment, make a list of things that are bothering you so you can be clear about your needs, ask if there are options other than antidepressants.”
Dr David Doig agrees: “First, be honest with someone close to you who can support you. Secondly, understand that GPs have enormous experience with mental health and the best thing to do is not be shy or embarrassed, and to bring up the big issues right at the beginning of the appointment.”
“Many people come to us with something physical, a sore elbow for example, and it’s only after a lot of talking that we get the real reason they made the appointment,” says Doig.
“It’s much better for them if they are upfront and honest right at the start. Then we can really help.”
Martin Hill says:
I read about research into the role and results of micronutrients with regards to mental health by the University of Canterbury.
Tremendous results but seemingly ignored by the Ministry of Health and too expensive for a person struggling with finances.
Must be very frustrating for the researchers when they have such clear answers and probably far cheaper on a Government scale than pharmaceuticals.
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James Blunt recalls Whitney Houston in his new single Miss America
James Blunt pays tribute to late Whitney Houston in his new single Miss America.
In the brand new track from his fourth studio album Moon Landing, James Blunt, 39, offers an acoustic ballad which speaks of the personal connection fans feel they have with singers, musicians and bands because of the media spotlight upon them.
Allowing the lyrics and melodies to work for themselves, the music video just shows James Blunt with simply a grand piano as his accompaniment.
The allusions to Whitney Houston are clear from the first line which asks “did someone give you something to help you ease the pain, like the liquor in a bottle we watched you slip away”.
In 2012, on February 11, Whitney Houston was found unconscious and submerged in the bathtub of her her suite at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, and was pronounced dead at the scene.
The cause of death was down to the “effects of atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use” according to the Los Angeles County coroner’s office.
James Blunt pays tribute to late Whitney Houston in his new single Miss America
Considered one of the greatest singers of all time, Whitney Houston loss was felt across the world, and just like the reaction to Princess Diana’s death in 1997, her death caused global mourning for the people, like James Blunt, who felt like they knew her “through the bars of a song”.
A sombre first release from James Blunt’s upcoming album, his following tracks will continue an emotionally charged theme.
James Blunt worked again with producer Tom Rothrock – who worked with James on his multi-platinum selling debut Back To Bedlam – and also brought in Martin Terefe who has credits in the musical work of KT Tunstall, Martha Wainwright and Jason Mraz.
Discussing the album’s name, James Blunt said: “There’s just something romantic, old-school and lonely about the moon landings. A nostalgic memory of something huge that we can hardly believe we once achieved, and for some sad reason, can’t achieve again – like first love.
“This is a much more personal album, and also quite back to basics. It’s about me and Tom, the producer, finding where the story all started and where we are now.
“I’m not trying to prove anything,” James Blunt continued.
“I haven’t been trying to second-guess the audience or over-thinking things. It’s just me alone in a sound-booth, looking through the glass at Tom, trying to express myself simply and honestly. This is the album I would have recorded, perhaps, if Back To Bedlam hadn’t sold anything.”
The first single from James Blunt’s new record will be Bonfire Heart on October 7, with the album available on October 21.
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"Unless your brand stands for something, it stands for nothing," he declares, as he explains methods for companies big and small to articulate their essence and ethos to core customers, potential customers and employees. Bedbury elaborates his belief that "the brand is the sum total of everything a company does" with lively anecdotes from the experiences of Harley-Davidson, Microsoft and others. He calls for advertising and marketing that will inspire rather than merely inform (ie: "Just Do It").
Inside The Magic Kingdom - 7 Keys to Disney's Success
by Thomas K. Connellan ISBN: 1885167237, Hardcover- $13.00 BUY
Look in Mickey's Briefcase . . . Now, an outsider takes you inside the incredible Disney service culture and presents simple, powerful concepts in a fun, memorable way that just may change the way you conduct business. Based on hours of interviews and discussions with present and former Disney employees, Inside the Magic Kingdom discloses the secrets behind Disneys success . . . and explains why, of its more than 30 million guests each year, over two-thirds are repeat customers.
This upbeat, easy-to-read book illustrates clear, solid principles with examples that are well-known to Disney insiders but virtually unknown to outsiders until now. Outlines the seven keys to Disney's success. Now the principles that drive the culture and phenomenal success of Disney are disclosed in this fun, easy-to-read book. You will learn many insider secrets that will spell success if implemented in any business.
McDonald's - Behind the Arches
by John F. Love ISBN: 0553347594, Paperback- $11.05 BUY
McDonald's: it is the world's premier entrepreneurial success story, a company whose growth worldwide continues to be astonishing. In tough financial times, McDonald's proved that ingenuity, trial and error, and gut instinct were the keys to building a service business the entire world has come to admire. In the years since McDonald's: Behind The Arches was first published, McDonald's has been a trendsetter in advertising, focusing on different ethnic groups as well as the physically disabled.
McDonald's created McJobs, a program that employs both mentally challenged adults and senior citizens. And because its franchisees have their fingers on the pulse of the marketplace, McDonald's has evolved successfully with the health food revolution, launching dozens of new products and moving toward environmentally-safe packaging and recyclable goods. Inspiring, informative, and filled with behind the scenes stories, this remarkable saga offers an irresistible look inside a great American business success.
How to Make Your Business Run Without You!
by Susan M. Carter ISBN: 0967029104, Paperback- $26.60 BUY
How To Make Your Business Run Without You is a how-to resource for small business owners and entrepreneurs to effectively streamline operations that will pave the way for more business, bigger profits and a business that virtually runs itself. Through step-by-step chapters, Author Susan Carter advances readers from the high-risk potential of 'owning their own jobs' to the freedom and control of 'owning their own businesses.' A must read for any owner or self-employed professional who is eager to move from start-up status to ongoing success.
The Myth of Excellence - Why Great Companies Never Try to Be the Best at Everything
by Fred Crawford, Ryan Mathews ISBN: 0609608207, Hardcover- $19.25 BUY
Crawford is the managing director of the consumer products, retail, and distribution practice at the Cap Gemini Ernst and Young consultancy. Mathews is a futurist specializing in demographics and lifestyle analysis at FirstMatter, another consulting firm. To research purchasing behavior, they surveyed 5,000 consumers, but the responses they got surprised them and prompted their title's contrary proposition.
They developed a new model of "consumer relevancy." They explain in detail the importance of price, service, quality, access, and experience for the consumer. They then suggest that for companies to be successful they need to dominate on only one of these five factors. On a second of the five they should stand out or differentiate themselves from their competitors; and on the remaining three they need only to be at par with others in their industry. With dozens of examples, Crawford and Mathews demonstrate the validity of their premise.
Raving Fans - A Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service
by Kenneth H. Blanchard, Sheldon Bowles (Contributor) ISBN: 0688123163, Hardcover- $13.00 BUY
Kenneth Blanchard continues his trend of writing easy-to-read books with BIG ideas for making your business better. Raving Fans is a book of stories relating how fictional companies have created an environment of delivering awesome customer service. A guy that has just been put in a managment position requiring a turnaround goes on a fictional trip with his "angel" to visit businesses that have figured out their vision and their system to deliver customer service extraordinary. Based on three simple principles (Decide, Discover, Deliver), each company has created a group of Raving Fans (not just customers, but fans) who wouldn't consider shopping anywhere else for what one of these companies offers.
Differentiate or Die - Survival in Our Era of Killer Competition
by Jack Trout, Steve Rivkin (Contributor) ISBN: 0471357642, Hardcover- $17.61 BUY
There are no two ways about it with Jack Trout. Either you've got a product or service that you can say is different, or you don't have much at all. In today's global marketplace and at its lightning-fast rate of change, there's no point in inventing and presenting a product only to sit back and hope that consumers everywhere will discover its greatness. It's not simply about what you or your product can do, it's about what you do differently from everyone else. Coauthors Trout and Steve Rivkin say it all in their no-holds-barred title, Differentiate or Die.
Extraordinary Guarantees - Achieving Breakthrough Gains in Quality and Customer Satisfaction
by Christopher Hart ISBN: 0814450644, Paperback- $24.95 BUY
Many leading firms have achieved both these results by offering extraordinary guarantees. You too can boost organizational performance and quality to new levels by following the practical advice offered in the important book, Extraordinary Guarantees. Guarantees were once considered nothing more than a marketing gimmick. But as more and more quality leaders have begun to offer ironclad pledges of total customer satisfaction, the guarantee is now being recognized as an unparalleled tool for gaining a major, often unbeatable, competitive edge-and a host of other benefits.
Competing on Value
by Mack Hanan, Peter Karp (Contributor) ISBN: 0814450369, Hardcover- $17.47 BUY
Presents a new approach to selling that emphasizes not competing on the basis of the best price, but the highest value--i.e. demonstrating to current and prospective customers that using your products or services will either cut their costs or improve their revenues. This book discusses VALUE. Value is not what you put INTO your products and services, it is what the customer GETS OUT. Three qualifiers of value are how much, how soon, and how sure--these are what the customer needs to know. In summary, this is highly recommended for every company that sells products and/or services.
Practice What You Preach - What Managers Must Do to Create a High-Achievement Culture
by David H. Maister ISBN: 0743211871, Hardcover- $18.20 BUY
Maister, a professional service consultant, surveyed 6,500 employees at 50 worldwide companies to evaluate the relationship between company financial performance and employee satisfaction and loyalty. He found a direct and dramatic correlation. Here, he offers detailed commentary from CEOs, managers and staffers, and analysis of the survey results. Bosses in all kinds of companies will benefit from his solid advice, which should be required reading for executives and upper level managers.
by Rudolph W. Giuliani, Ken Kurson ISBN: 0786868414, Hardcover- $16.35 BUY
This highly anticipated book from New York's once controversial, now beloved former mayor opens with a gripping account of Giuliani's immediate reaction to the September 11 attacks, including a narrow escape from the original crisis command headquarters, and closes with the efforts to address the aftermath during his remaining four months in office. But, he argues, he did not suddenly become a great leader on September 11, and "had been doing [my] best to take on challenges my whole career."
Throughout, he displays the hands-on management that marked his administration, including his willingness to respond swiftly and in person to crises, to prove that he could be relied on when the city needed him most. While some critics found his style too aggressive, he has an effective counterargument: "Before September 11, there were those who said we were being overly concerned [about security]," he observes. "We didn't hear that afterwards..."
Why We Buy - The Science of Shopping
by Paco Underhill ISBN: 0684849143, Paperback- $9.75 BUY
In an effort to determine why people buy, Paco Underhill and his band of retail researchers have camped out in stores over the course of 20 years, dedicating their lives to the "science of shopping." Armed with an array of video equipment, store maps, and customer-profile sheets, Underhill and his consulting firm, Envirosell, have observed over 900 aspects of interaction between shopper and store. They've discovered that men who take jeans into fitting rooms are more likely to buy than females (65 percent vs. 25 percent).
They've learned how the "butt-brush factor" (bumped from behind, shoppers become irritated and move elsewhere) makes women avoid narrow aisles. They've quantified the importance of shopping baskets; contact between employees and shoppers; the "transition zone" (the area just inside the store's entrance); and "circulation patterns" (how shoppers move throughout a store). And they've explored the relationship between a customer's amenability and profitability, learning how good stores capitalize on a shopper's unspoken inclinations and desires.
Underhill, whose clients include McDonald's, Starbucks, Est?Lauder, and Blockbuster, stocks Why We Buy with a wealth of retail insights, showing how men are beginning to shop like women, and how women have changed the way supermarkets are laid out. He also looks to the future, projecting massive retail opportunities with an aging baby-boom population and predicting how online retailing will affect shopping malls. This lighthearted look at shopping is highly recommended to anyone who buys or sells.
Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal With Change in Your Work and in Your Life
by Spencer Johnson, Kenneth H. Blanchard ISBN: 0399144463, Paperback- $12.97 BUY
Change can be a blessing or a curse, depending on your perspective. The message of Who Moved My Cheese? is that all can come to see it as a blessing, if they understand the nature of cheese and the role it plays in their lives. Who Moved My Cheese? is a parable that takes place in a maze. Four beings live in that maze: Sniff and Scurry are mice--nonanalytical and nonjudgmental, they just want cheese and are willing to do whatever it takes to get it. Hem and Haw are "littlepeople," mouse-size humans who have an entirely different relationship with cheese. It's not just sustenance to them; it's their self-image.
Their lives and belief systems are built around the cheese they've found. Most of us reading the story will see the cheese as something related to our livelihoods--our jobs, our career paths, the industries we work in--although it can stand for anything, from health to relationships. The point of the story is that we have to be alert to changes in the cheese, and be prepared to go running off in search of new sources of cheese when the cheese we have runs out.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Restoring the Character Ethic
by Stephen R. Covey ISBN: 0671708635, Paperback- $11.20 BUY
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change was a groundbreaker when it was first published in 1990, and it continues to be a business bestseller with more than 10 million copies sold. Stephen Covey, an internationally respected leadership authority, realizes that true success encompasses a balance of personal and professional effectiveness, so this book is a manual for performing better in both arenas.
Principle-Centered Leadership
by Stephen R. Covey ISBN: 0671792806, Paperback- $9.75 BUY
Covey, the author of the New York Times number 1 bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, has struck a chord with millions of readers with his insights into human nature and values. Now he tells them how to apply his theories to everyday life, focusing primarily on the world of business.
The Power Principle - Influence With Honor
by Blaine Lee, Stephen R. Covey ISBN: 0684846160, Paperback- $9.75 BUY
This self-help book reflects Lee's views on various types of power and how to develop principle-centered power in your life, which he defines as power that inspires loyalty and devotion, transcending time and place. Such power is based on trust and respect and survives even after one dies. Lee describes three types of power: coercive, which relies on the premise of control and uses fear as its instrument; utility, which is based on fairness, the exchange of what you can do for me with what I can do for you; and principle-centered, which is based on what you can do with others. The author tells us that his purpose in writing this book is to encourage us in our work with people, and he recommends that we choose principle-centered power as the primary way to influence others in our key relationships. Such power requires us to grow, to challenge our assumptions, and often to change our whole orientation in life.
by George S. Clason ISBN: 0451205367, Paperback- $6.99 BUY
I often give this book out as a gift whenever a person younger than me asks for my advice on money. I always present this book to them saying "if you read it and do as it says, it will work magic." It really contains excellent, time tested advice, and would make a good gift for someone in their early 20s who is on their own for the first time, and struggling.
The book is a series of parables about money written in the 1920s by George Clason. They were written as individual essays of a few thousand words, but the theme throughout them is consistent -- save 10% of your money, give 10% away, use 10% to reduce your debt load, and live on the remaining 70%.
The stories in the book are entertaining; they are reminiscent of some of the parables in the Bible, such as the Prodigal Son or the story of the Workers in the Vineyard. I think this is intentional on the part of the author; certainly readers in the 1920s had an appreciation for "old fashioned stories with a moral" that people today seem to have lost. I enjoy the book greatly, though, and any thoughtful person who reads the book should find it interesting, especially if they are trying to get their finances in order.
The Wealthy Barber, Updated 3rd Edition
by David Chilton ISBN: 0761513116, Paperback- $10.78 BUY
In this revised and expanded edition of one of the biggest-selling financial-planning books ever, David Chilton, president of Financial Awareness Corporation, shows readers how to achieve the financial independence they've always dreamed of. With the help of his fictional barber, Roy, and a large dose of humor, Chilton encourages readers to take control of their financial future and build wealth slowly, steadily, and with sure success.
The E-Myth Manager - Why Management Doesn't Work-And What to Do About It
by Michael E. Gerber ISBN: 0887309593, Paperback- $11.02 BUY
More than ten years after his first bestselling book, The E-Myth, changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of small business owners, Michael Gerber - entrepreneur, author, and speaker extraordinaire fires the next salvo in his highly successful E-Myth Revolution. Drawing on lessons learned from working with more than 15,000 small, medium-sized, and very large organizations, Gerber has discovered the truth behind why management doesn't workand what to do about it.
Unearthing the arbitrary origins of commonly held doctrines such as the omniscience of leader (Emperor) and the most widely embraced myth of all. The E-Myth Manager offers a fresh, provocative alternative to management as we know it. It explores why every manager must take charge of his own life, reconcile his own personal vision with that of the organization, and develop an entrepreneurial mind-set to achieve true success.
by Napoleon Hill ISBN: 0449214923, Paperback- $7.19 BUY
Is it true that by simply changing your thoughts you can completely change what you have in life? How could it be that simple? It is, but first you have to believe.
Most people want to see something happen, then believe in it. To be succesful you have to do the opposite. Believe in it first, then you will see it. That's is one of the key messages in this book written almost 70 years ago.... It reads like it was written yesterday.
The title says it all. "Think and Grow Rich", but it is NOT just a book about making money. I am certain many people from all walks of life could benefit from this work, regardless of their opinion of money and riches. The message is clear: You may have whatever you want in life... if you can discover the secret within its pages.
I first read this book when I was a teenager. I am not sure it made much of an impression on me. I picked it up recently and I can't believe how much it has changed. Of course, that's nonsense. The book is the same, only my mind is now ready to see what the secret is...
Get this book and see if you can unlock the Secret to finding 'riches' for yourself.
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Fall of the Berlin Wall 30: The Victims
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Tens of thousands of citizens of the so-called German Democratic Republic (GDR) tried to flee to West Germany between 1961 and 1989. Many were shot and killed by the GDR’s border guards.
The exact number of Wall victims is unclear. Depending on the source there were anywhere between 101 and more than 600 of them. Most were shot at the Berlin Wall or the inner-German border. Some committed suicide once they were caught.
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In addition, some Eastern German refugees were murdered while trying to escape the Eastern Bloc through other countries, including Bulgaria, where the infamous GDR State Security cooperated with the Sofia regime’s brutal ‘Darzhavna Sigurnost‘. (Read separate article ‘Shot to Death While Trying to Escape’).
One of Berlin’s memorials for Wall victims is located behind the ‘Reichstag’, at the Spree river, in which many were shot. Photo: Imanuel Marcus
Many flight attempts worked out. GDR nationals climbed into the trunks of cars, they used inflatable boats and even balloons. Others paid professionals from Western Germany who got them out in private aircraft. GDR soldiers, who were supposed to guard the Wall or the inner German border, ran across the inner-German border, in attempts to flee themselves.
Other refugees tried to swim across the Spree river. Some of them were shot and killed in the water. Death on site was the verdict for many of those who wanted freedom instead of oppression.
These are three of the many Berlin Wall victims:
Michael Bittner: On November 24th, 1986, only three years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the 25-year-old decided to flee. He climbed the first border fence in Glienicke, using a wooden ladder. GDR border guards located, shot and killed him. Before it happened, Bittner had been harassed as an army soldier. His official departure applications were denied. After the murder, the regime in East Berlin kept on denying anything happened.
Michael Bittner and Marienetta Jirkowsky were murdered by the state they were nationals of. Photos: ‘Chronik der Mauer’
Marienetta Jirkowsky: With two male friends, the 18-year-old woman traveled from Brandenburg province to East Berlin on November 21st, 1980. The part of the Wall they had wanted to climb looked too dangerous, so they decided to try overcoming it Hohen Neuendorf early the next morning. Because Marienetta was not tall enough to reach the top of the Wall from the self-made ladder they used, one of her friends tried to pull her up. While he did, border guards opened fire and injured her badly. A few hours later she died at a hospital.
A memorial in Berlin’s city center of Berlin includes a cross for Marienetta Jirkowsky (last name on cross misspelled). Photo: Imanuel Marcus
Werner Gambke: Officially, he took a vacation in the Bulgarian Rhodope mountains in June of 1965. His actual intention was to flee the Soviet Bloc via the Bulgarian-Greek border. One night, the 28-year-old left the village he was staying at and headed south. But he was observed and reported by Bulgarian inhabitants. The next morning, he was shot and killed right at a tall fence he thought was the border. It actually marked the “forbidden zone”, several miles away from Greece.
Legal Implications
The murders at the Berlin Wall and the border had legal implications. While Germany was still separated into the communist ‘German Democratic Republic’ and the Federal Republic of Germany, there was not much the prosecution could do. In the town of Salzgitter, a ‘central office’ pressed “charges against unknown persons”.
It was different after the fall of the Wall, in reunited Germany. The state sued two former ‘Chairmen of the State Council of the GDR’, Erich Honecker and Egon Krenz, who is 82 years old today. Krenz got six and a half years for manslaughter, electoral fraud and other crimes, of which he served four. Honecker was allowed to join his wife in Chile, because he was dying. Other former GDR officials were charged as well.
Many more stories about Wall victims, in both German and English, can be found on the ‘Chronik der Mauer’ website.
Fall of the Wall 30: Following the ‘Wall Path’
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University of Sharjah College of Business Administration
University of Sharjah, College of Business Administration
The College of Business Administration (COBA) was founded in 1997 at the time of the establishment of the University of Sharjah. The College has developed to house undergraduate programs with majors and minors in all functional areas of business administration, covering Management, Finance and Economics, and Accounting. COBA also offers MBA, EMBA and DBA programs. COBA were very pleased to obtain AACSB recognition (in 2017) as well as accreditation in a range of other areas including ACCA, CIMA, CPA Australia and CFA.
COBA has 1310 enrolled students (61% Female, 39% Male) of which 1011 are undergraduate and 299 graduate. The student body is internationally diverse with 53% being Emirati nationals and the remainder made up of students from other GCC countries (7%), other Arab countries (27%) and 13% from elsewhere. Programs that have the largest number of enrolled students in spring 2020 are: BSc Management (272); BSc Accounting (262); BSc Finance (211); MBA (191) and the BSc Marketing (95).
https://www.sharjah.ac.ae/en/academics/Colleges/business/Pages/default.aspx
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Hackers Demand Millions from Manchester United
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Reports state that a number of hackers have demanded millions from football club Manchester United after the team was hit by a ransomware attack.
The ransomware attack in question saw a number of Manchester United’s systems shut down to “contain the damage and protect data,” according to the club, with some reports stating that hackers have demanded millions from Manchester United after the ransomware attack.
To make things worse for the club, there is the potential of a large scale fine from the Information Commissioner’s Office for Manchester United if hackers have made their way into the personal information of club supporters. That is, in addition, to the pain caused by hackers’ demands for millions from Manchester United after the ransomware attack in question.
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The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre – NCSC – has confirmed that it is working alongside Manchester United in the aftermath of the ransomware attack, with a spokesperson saying that “the NCSC is aware of an incident affecting Manchester United football club and we are working with the organisations and partners to understand the impact.”
Manchester United’s initial statement in response to hackers demanding millions from the football club, said that “following the recent cyber attack on the club, our IT team and external experts secured our networks and have conducted forensic investigations.”
“This attack was by nature disruptive, but we are not currently aware of any fan data being compromised,” it said.
“Critical systems required for matches to take place at Old Trafford remained secure and games have gone ahead as normal,” the statement said, adding that “the club will not be commenting on speculation regarding who may have been responsible for this attack or the motives behind it.”
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The Daily Mail is reporting that “Manchester United are being held to ransom for millions of pounds by cyber criminals who have crippled the club’s systems.”
The author of that report states that “it’s unclear who the criminals are or how much they want, but the NCSC revealed that in the last year an EFL club were hit with a £5m demand and the biggest single loss to a sports organisation from cyber crime was £4m.”
That same report makes reference to the potential fine from the Information Commissioner’s Office, who has in the past fined companies like British Airways in the aftermath of a data breach. Chris Wheeler writes that “United could also face fines of £9m, £18m or two per cent of their total annual worldwide turnover from the independent body Information Commissioner’s Office if the attack is found to have breached their fans’ data protection.”
The UK’s NCSC has in the past said that “the business impact of ransomware attacks can be disastrous,” adding that “since 2018, ranwomare attacks have been growing in impact. The criminals carrying out the attacks are taking more time to analyse victim networks and understand the ‘value’ of the target organisation.”
The cyber security agency adds that “using network analysis and lateral movement within the victim’s network, attackers try to ensure they have maximum impact on the victim organisation – potentially denying access to business-critical files and systems.”
Jon Niccols, a cyber security analyst with Check Point has told InfoSecurity Magazine that “it isn’t clear what type of attack hit the club, but as its statement mentioned that it ‘shut down affected systems to contain the damage and protect data,’ this suggests ransomware, and possibly a double extortion attack where attackers both steal data with the threat of leaking it, as well as encryption it to disrupt operations.”
That same report quotes Adam Enterkin of BlackBerry who said that “the exploitation of sporting giants by cyber criminals is not a surprise. Amid a pandemic characterized by opportunistic cyber-attackers, and a huge deficit of security professionals in the UK, such an attack was all but inevitable.”
“Manchester United isn’t the first to be hacked, and it won’t be the last,” Enterkin said.
“These attacks are, however, preventable. The truth is that the entire nation needs better cyber-hygiene. Even national institutions like sports teams can fall prey to simple phishing emails, which are responsible for a large proportion of cyber-attacks. Cyber-criminals are waiting for organisations and the public to drop their guard.”
“We must not give them the opportunity,” he concluded.
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‘An Interesting’ and ‘Most Thoughtful Question’
Published April 25, 2016 Uncategorized Leave a Comment
Tags: Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, New Hampshire Presidential Primary, Objective of the 9/11 Attacks, Osama bin Laden
On Friday, February 5th, I attended a Jeb Bush town hall meeting in Concord, New Hampshire. Senator Lindsey Graham and former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge introduced former Governor Bush and sat behind him during the meeting. During the question and answer portion of the meeting, I raised my hand at every opportunity, and Bush eventually called on me. I told Bush I was an undecided independent and that he could earn my vote with the right answer to my question. I asked him: What do you believe was the objective of the 9/11 attacks?
I have found no recording of Bush’s answer, but Brett Samuels, a journalism student writing for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, summarized Bush’s answer in his report on the meeting. Samuels wrote, “Bush said it was to attack western civilization and an effort to blame the United States for the problems the terrorist group saw in the world.”
I told Bush that this was not the answer I had hoped for. Bush then shrugged his shoulders and with a perplexed look said: “It’s an interesting question.” He then tentatively asked, “What do you think?”
I was beyond nervous. The thought, “Don’t say it!” raced through my mind. But it was too late to stop now. I leaned into the microphone that the staffer was holding for me and with a shaky voice said, “I believe the objective of the 9/11 attacks was to get us to invade Afghanistan.”
Sounds of surprise erupted from the room. At least one person gasped.
I then said, “I believe the 9/11 attacks were the knives that al-Qaeda used to hijack our military and turn it into a weapon of fiscal mass destruction.”
When he responded, Bush demonstrated the character and personal qualities that had brought me to the meeting. In spite of the fact that it was his brother who had ordered U.S. troops into Afghanistan, he did not take offense. Furthermore, he did nothing to denigrate me or my belief.
“I disagree,” Bush said respectfully. “I’m sorry, I am not going to get your vote.”
Bush paused before moving on to the next question, but he had left me no opening to explain why I believed what it did. I simply nodded and said nothing more.
I was disappointed. I have a great deal of respect for Jeb Bush. I had wanted to vote for him, but he had said nothing to resolve my concern. He had not said why he disagreed with me, and he had not provided any evidence that I was wrong.
Later in the meeting, a man got up and walked out of the room. I was standing near the door, and as the man walked past me, he told me it was a good question. I was very grateful to him because I sure that most of the people in the room thought I was crazy. In his report on the meeting, Brett Samuels wrote that there had been “a mix of friendly and sometimes odd questions.” Of the questions he mentioned in his report, mine was the only “odd” one.
My decision to attend Jeb Bush’s town hall and ask this “odd” question had been prompted by Senator Rand Paul’s withdrawal from the race a few days earlier. After Senator Paul suspended his campaign, the remaining candidates who met my basic prerequisites all seemed likely to allow groups like ISIS or al-Qaeda to ensnare the U.S. in another costly and protracted war. There were candidates who I thought might protect the U.S. from such a war, but, for various reasons, I was unwilling to offer any of them my vote. Therefore, I decided to take advantage of the unique opportunity that is available to residents of New Hampshire; I decided to attend a Bush town hall and give Bush a chance to address my concern directly.
My concern originated from research I had done just prior to the Iraq war. In late 2002, I decided to develop an informed opinion on the question of whether or not the U.S. should go to war with Iraq. As part of my research, I read many of Osama bin Laden’s public statements. In several of these statements, bin Laden expressed his belief that al-Qaeda could defeat the United States in Afghanistan in the same way that the mujaheddin had defeated the Soviet Union there, by engaging it in a war of attrition. Bin Laden’s statements suggested that he had wanted the U.S. to invade Afghanistan, and that he wanted the U.S. to invade Iraq.
In the months and years that followed, I often wondered if George W. Bush or any of the leaders in his administration had ever considered the possibility that al-Qaeda might have been trying to lure the United States into a costly and protracted war. I read Bob Woodward’s books, Bush at War and Plan of Attack, which provided, respectively, in-depth coverage of the deliberations within the administration that lead to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. I found no evidence in either of these books, or anything else I read on the subject, that anyone in the administration had ever considered the possibility that al-Qaeda might have been trying to lure the United States into war.
Now, thirteen years later, another Bush was running for the presidency. I was quite certain that Jeb Bush did not believe the primary objective of the 9/11 attacks was to lure the U.S. into war, but I wondered if he had ever seriously considered the possibility. One of the goals of my question was to assess if he had ever thought about what the objective of the 9/11 attacks was. His answer, his perplexed look, and his comment that it was an “interesting question,” suggested he had not.
But Bush still could have won my vote. There were two reasons why I told him he could earn my vote with his answer to my question. First, I wanted him to know that, aside from my concern, I was ready to vote for him. Second, after he answered my question, I wanted to have the opportunity to tell him what I believed and give him a chance to address my concern. But I made a big mistake by telling him what I believed without providing any supporting evidence. Since Bush was apparently hearing this idea for the first time, and since I did not provide any evidence to support my belief, Bush had no reason to conclude that my belief merited further discussion. I would not make this mistake again.
The following evening, Saturday, February 6th, I watched the 8th GOP Presidential Debate. This was the debate in which Governor Christie criticized Senator Rubio for his memorized answers to questions. I had previously decided not to vote for Rubio (irrespective of his views on national security, which concerned me) because I did not believe Rubio was ready to be President. I was impressed with how Christie exposed some of Rubio’s limitations. I had not been considering Christie, but I decided to attend one of his town halls.
The next morning, I drove to Hampton, NH, to see Christie. While I was waiting for the town hall to begin, a couple standing next to me struck up a conversation and asked me who I was considering. I told them I was considering Christie and Kasich. They said they had seen both candidates several times. They were very impressed with Christie. The man said Kasich could be “a little prickly.” I would see an example of that later that day.
During the question and answer portion of Christie’s town hall, Christie called on the man I had spoken with earlier, but he did not call on me. The meeting did, however, provide me with some valuable insights. One woman asked Christie how he would deal with a cyber attack on the nation’s power grid. Another person asked him how he would address the federal budget deficit. Christie gave detailed answers to these questions and made a strong case that his experience as governor of New Jersey had prepared him to deal with challenges such as these.
Like Bush, when Christie disagreed with people, he did so directly and respectfully. Unlike Bush, he gave detailed reasons why he disagreed.
In his closing argument, Christie spoke of conversations he had had with people whose children had been deployed to war zones. He expressed great empathy and compassion for these parents, and he spoke of what a heavy responsibility it is for a President to decide when it is necessary to go to war. He asked the people in attendance to think about who they would trust to decide when it was necessary to send their loved ones to war.
From Hampton, I drove to Concord, NH to attend a John Kasich town hall. At Kasich’s town hall, I was again not called on. As at Christie’s town hall, however, the meeting provided some valuable insights. For example, a woman asked Kasich, yes or no, if he was elected, and Congress passed a balanced budget that funded Planned Parenthood, would he sign it? Kasich avoided the question by saying there was no way a Republican Congress was going to pass a budget that funded Planned Parenthood. The woman pressed him for a yes or no answer. When Kasich continued to avoid the question, a man in the audience shouted out, “Yes or no?” Kasich then made a face that a child would make and responded very testily, “Yes or no. Yes or no.” Then, while moving his arms up and down mechanically, he asked, “What am I, a robot?” This was, no doubt, a reference to Senator Rubio’s debate performance the previous evening, but the response suggested that Kasich was thin-skinned. It seemed that he was, indeed, “a little prickly.” It was also unclear how committed he was to balancing the budget.
I made one last attempt to ask my question. On Monday, February 8th, the evening before the New Hampshire Presidential Primary, I left work a little early and drove in a snowstorm to attend Christie’s final town hall meeting at the Saint George Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Manchester, NH. When Christie opened the meeting for questions, the hand of the man sitting in front of me shot up. The man was very eager to ask his question, and every time Christie finished a question, the man’s hand was in the air.
It turns out there is a bit of an art to getting a candidate to call on you in a town hall. The candidates are pretty good at identifying problematic questioners (like me), and they tend to avoid them. Kasich, for example, said he had learned never to call on the first person who raises his or her hand. In general, it seems you reduce your chances by appearing overeager. The man sitting in front of me had apparently not yet learned this. This would have been a good thing for me if the man had been sitting anywhere other than right in front of me, but it was going to be almost impossible for Christie to bypass the man and call on me. And since the chances were small that Christie would call on the man, the man was likely to remain an obstacle for the entire meeting. I considered moving elsewhere in the room, but after the debacle at Jeb Bush’s town hall, I decided it would be just fine if I didn’t get to ask my question.
But then Christie looked in our direction while the man in front of me was distracted. I raised my hand, trying to strike a balance between the need to get my hand up before the man in front of me and the need to not appear overeager. The man in front of me shot his hand up about a second after I raised mine, but he was too late. Christie called on me. The man in front of me stood up, thinking Christie had called on him, but the red checkered shirt I was wearing made it easy for Christie to indicate who he had selected. The following is a recording of my question, Christie’s answer, and the discussion that followed.
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Recording courtesy of Paige Sutherland of New Hampshire Public Radio
After the town hall was over, I went up and shook Governor Christie’s hand and thanked him for taking my question. He told me my question was the most thoughtful question he had been asked on the subject in 80 town halls.
First of all, I would like to set the record straight. When Governor Christie asked me who I was considering, I did not want to answer his question. I panicked and blurted out that Bush had not answered my question. That was not true. This mistake, along with my inability to say more than a few words without inserting an “ah” or an “um,” gave me a sense of how difficult it is to do what the candidates do. I was very impressed with how well Bush, Kasich and Christie were able to answer the wide variety of questions that people asked them. Christie was especially impressive in his ability to think on his feet and give well-reasoned responses.
As Christie’s comment to me after the meeting made clear, no one had previously asked him what he thought the objective of the 9/11 attacks was. In spite of this, after restating my question, he confidently stated two probable objectives of the attacks:
I believe the objectives of the 9/11 attacks were twofold. First, [they] to were to prove to the world that al-Qaeda was a movement of great strength and great power, and a movement that needed to be both respected and feared. And second, I believe it was to inflict as much damage as possible on the American people because their leader and members of al-Qaeda believed that America, um, was a cause of great tumult and turmoil in their society and in their religion, and that they believe that our, that our lives should be governed by their religious beliefs, not the other way around, and they wanted to use that intimidation, and that death and violence to attempt to intimidate us into capitulating to their point of view.”
When I asked Christie if there were any other objectives to the attacks, he said: “Listen, I can’t get inside the depraved mind of Osama bin Laden…I can’t read minds. I just believe both in what they said and how they acted, before, with the USS Cole, the Embassy bombings, that that was their intent.”
While I was waiting to ask Jeb Bush my question, I had asked myself if it was reasonable to expect a presidential candidate to have an opinion on what was going on in the mind of Osama bin Laden. I concluded that it was more than reasonable to expect those who want to be Commander in Chief of the United States to have an informed opinion on what bin Laden hoped to achieve in the most deadly attacks that have ever occurred on American soil, especially given that many of today’s national security challenges resulted, at least in part, from the U.S. response to the 9/11 attacks.
And while it is true that no one can read Osama bin Laden’s mind (especially now that he is dead), everyone can read his statements. Bin Laden made no secret of his beliefs or his goals. In statement after statement, he articulated his strategy for defeating the United States. For example, in October 2001, two weeks after U.S. bombs began falling on Afghanistan, Tayseer Alouni of Al-Jazeera asked bin Laden: “How can al-Qaeda defeat America militarily?” Bin Laden answered:
In the past when al Qaeda fought with the mujahedeen, we were told, “Wow, can you defeat the Soviet Union?” The Soviet Union scared the whole world then. NATO used to tremble of fear of the Soviet Union. Where is that power now? We barely remember it. It broke down into many small states and Russia remained. God, who provided us with his support and kept us steadfast until the Soviet Union was defeated, is able to provide us once more with his support to defeat America on the same land and with the same people.
Later in the same interview, which, again, occurred two weeks after the the United States launched Operation Enduring Freedom, Alouni asked bin Laden: “What is your assessment of the attacks on America?” bin Laden answered:
The events of Tuesday, September the 11th, in New York and Washington are great on all levels. Their repercussions are not over. Although the collapse of the twin towers is huge, but the events that followed, and I’m not just talking about the economic repercussions, those are continuing, the events that followed are dangerous and more enormous than the collapse of the towers.
The events that followed the 9/11 attacks would, indeed, prove to be “more enormous than the collapse of the towers.”
A little over a year later, just before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, bin Laden released an audio tape in which he gave Iraqis detailed advice on how to fight the United States and recommended “luring the enemy forces into a protracted, close, and exhausting fight.” Secretary of State Colin Powell mentioned this tape when testifying to the Senate Budget Committee on February 11, 2003. He said, “Once again he [bin Laden] speaks to the people of Iraq and talks about their struggle and how he is in partnership with Iraq.”
Five days earlier, Secretary Powell had made his now discredited case to the U.N. Security Council where, among other things, he had said:
But what I want to bring to your attention today is the potentially much more sinister nexus between Iraq and the al Qaeda terrorist network, a nexus that combines classic terrorist organizations and modern methods of murder. Iraq today harbors a deadly terrorist network headed by Abu Musab Zarqawi, an associate and collaborator of Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda lieutenants.
[…] When our coalition ousted the Taliban, the Zarqawi network helped establish another poison and explosive training center camp. And this camp is located in northeastern Iraq.
But why was Zarqawi in northeastern Iraq? Bin Laden appears to have answered this question in a video recording in November 2004:
All that we have mentioned has made it easy for us to provoke and bait this administration. All that we have to do is to send two mujahidin to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al-Qaida, in order to make the generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic, and political losses without their achieving for it anything of note other than some benefits for their private companies.
This is in addition to our having experience in using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers, as we, alongside the mujahidin, bled Russia for 10 years, until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat.
All Praise is due to Allah.
So we are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah.
That being said, those who say that al-Qaida has won against the administration in the White House or that the administration has lost in this war have not been precise, because when one scrutinises the results, one cannot say that al-Qaida is the sole factor in achieving those spectacular gains.
Rather, the policy of the White House that demands the opening of war fronts to keep busy their various corporations – whether they be working in the field of arms or oil or reconstruction – has helped al-Qaida to achieve these enormous results.
And so it has appeared to some analysts and diplomats that the White House and us are playing as one team towards the economic goals of the United States, even if the intentions differ.
Twenty-one months before bin Laden said this, just prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, I wrote an article in which I argued that the United States did not know its enemy and was striving toward al-Qaeda’s goal. I failed to find anyone who would publish my article. No one had any reason to listen to me on this subject. All Americans, however, had reason to listen to bin Laden on this subject, but very few appear to have heard what he said.
Many, if not most, of the people who attended Jeb Bush’s town hall did not appear to have heard what bin Laden said. If they had, there would have been little or no surprise when I told Bush I believed the objective of the 9/11 attacks was to get the United States to invade Afghanistan.
Jeb Bush did not appear to have heard what bin Laden said. If he had, he would have had a better answer to my question, and he would not have seemed perplexed by the question.
And Chris Christie did not appear to have heard what bin Laden said. If he had, he would not have told me, “I think you might be […] giving him [bin Laden] too much credit on the sucker punch [..] to try to destroy us economically.”
To his credit, Christie said that he could be wrong on this point. But the fact that Christie admitted he could be wrong, along with other things he said, suggested that he had not thought about this possibility before. It appeared that Christie, like Bush, had not previously considered the possibility that bin Laden’s primary objective might have been to inflict fiscal damage on the United States.
Given all that bin Laden had openly claimed he was trying to do to the United States, and given all that had happened, how was it possible that two presidential candidates with strong national security credentials and advisors appeared to have never considered this possibility before? The answer, I believe, can be found in Christie’s answer to my last question.
My last question was, “if you are elected President, would you prevent that from happening again?” What I wanted to know was, if Christie was elected President and there was a major terrorist attack on the nation, would he ensure that the U.S. response to the attack would not, by itself, cause massive damage to the nation. I do not believe that groups like al-Qaeda or ISIS are, by themselves, an existential threat to the nation. I worry, however, that the unrealistic expectations that many Americans have of how much the government can, and should, do to protect them from terrorist attacks, could easily, in the wake of another major terrorist attack, cause much greater damage to the nation than the attack itself. Nothing that Christie said mitigated this concern. In fact, he didn’t really answer the question. My question was about the future. Christie’s answer focused on the past.
The majority of Christie’s answer to my last question was a summary of his established views on why he believed the war in Afghanistan was necessary and successful. As he worked through his views, he seemed to be testing them to see how well they held up to this new challenge. In the end, he appeared to have convinced himself that his views were still sound. And judging by the enthusiastic applause he received at the conclusion of his remarks, it appeared that most of the people in the room agreed with what he said. What he said, however, demonstrated the same failure of imagination that had prevented Americans from imagining that terrorists would be willing to sacrifice their lives in order to turn airplanes into missiles.
For example, when Christie said, “my view on Afghanistan is we needed to do something to arrest out the al-Qaeda training grounds,” he was failing to imagine that al-Qaeda might be willing to sacrifice its training camps in order to lure America into a war of attrition. He was failing to image that, in addition to being used to train terrorists, al-Qaeda’s training camps could also be used as bait.
When Christie said, “I think all of those things were fairly effective in preventing future terrorist attacks in the next seven years, in the United States, on American soil,” he was failing to imagine that once U.S. troops were in Afghanistan, it was much easier and more damaging to attack Americans in Afghanistan (and later Iraq) than it was to attack Americans in the United States. He was failing to imagine that, after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, it no longer made sense for al-Qaeda to attempt to attack the U.S. homeland from Afghanistan.
When Christie said the U.S. should be leaving small forces in Afghanistan and Iraq “so we don’t have the unrest that we have now,” he was imaging, incorrectly, that small forces could prevent unrest in those nations, and he was failing to imagine that unrest can also be used as bait.
And when Christie said that allowing the unrest to continue in Iraq and Afghanistan “would be bad for America, and certainly bad for the fighting men and women who gave their lives and their limbs […] in those efforts,” he was failing to imagine that our hunger to justify the nation’s losses, together our ravenous hunger for safety, can be used to make the bait almost impossible to resist.
America’s losses have been great. Over 6,800 American service men and women have lost their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq. Nearly a million have been injured. The wars alone are estimated to have cost over $4 trillion. The full cost of the events that were set in motion by the 9/11 attacks is much greater due to the general defense and homeland security spending increases, the tax cuts that were used to prop up the economy after the attacks, and the interest costs on the associated debt increases. Together, these costs are responsible for a significant percentage of the nation’s publicly-held debt.
As an American, the possibility that most of this damage resulted from bin Laden’s deliberate planning is very difficult to imagine. And once imagined, this possibility is very difficult to consider seriously.
In late 2002, when I first read bin Laden’s statements, they appeared to me to be the ravings of a madman. No sane man could believe that al-Qaeda, with its limited resources, could defeat the United States, the greatest military power on earth. When I read his statements, I did not think bin Laden wanted the U.S. to invade Afghanistan, or that he wanted the U.S. to invade Iraq. No, I thought bin Laden was crazy.
But then, one morning, it suddenly occurred to me that the U.S. response to the 9/11 attacks might have been exactly what bin Laden had hoped for. At first, this, too, seemed crazy. But as I thought about the events that had followed the attacks from this new perspective, bin Laden’s statements began to make a lot more sense. They no longer seemed to be the ravings of a madman. They seemed to be incredibly, and devastatingly, accurate.
Eventually, I concluded that the damage that was occurring to the United States was, indeed, the result of bin Laden’s deliberate planning. I hoped, however, that I was “giving bin Laden too much credit.” I hoped that the nation’s leaders, with the government’s massive intelligence resources at their disposal, had not failed, yet again, to connect the dots. This hope faded as the years past and the evidence that supported my conclusion grew, but it is easy for one person to overlook things. Nobody had ever had the opportunity to challenge my conclusions. Maybe I was overlooking something.
When I went to their town hall meetings, I hoped that Bush and Christie, with their connections to those who had led the nation after 9/11, knew something I did not. I hoped they could tell me why I was wrong. Unfortunately, they could not. They disagreed with me, but neither Bush nor Christie provided any evidence that I was wrong. Instead, it appeared that neither had previously considered the possibility, much less the likelihood, that the primary objective of the 9/11 attacks was to lure the United States into a costly and protracted war.
It goes without saying that I was unpersuaded by Bush’s and Christie’s responses to my questions and beliefs. Christie did a much better job of answering my questions than Bush, and Christie was much more open to the possibility that what I believed might be true. He even seemed to accept that an objective of the 9/11 attacks was to get the U.S. to invade Afghanistan when he said, “I think Bin Laden wanted to be attacked […] because it enhanced his credibility, in that part of the world, […] that we picked them, to launch war against.” In the end, however, my opinion was swayed in Christie’s favor more by his answers to other people’s questions, than by his answers to my questions.
For example, earlier in the Manchester town hall meeting, a man had asked Christie a question about Social Security, a seemingly unrelated topic. The man was concerned that Christie’s plan to reform Social Security would penalize people who had been good savers. As part of his response, Christie said “if we had your money, I’d give it back. It’s been stolen.” The man responded, “It has been stolen by the politicians in Washington.” To this, Christie responded:
Darn right. Glad I wasn’t there when it happened, and it will stop when I get there. But I cannot change history. Lyndon Johnson…Lyndon Johnson began this theft because he wanted to prosecute the Vietnam War and didn’t want to raise taxes to do it. So he began to steal Social Security money then, and every president since then has done the same thing. And so now what does the trust fund have in it? Mostly IOUs, and not cash. And so I got to fix a problem. You are hiring me to fix a problem.
I do not know if Christie was thinking of the costs of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars when he said this, but his response suggested that he understood, at least at some level, the fiscal consequences of prosecuting a war without paying for it.
Before the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. was on a path to essentially eliminate its publicly held debt by the end of 2011. Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda changed that. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq added greatly to the debt and effectively wiped out the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds. In other words, the man’s money was stolen by bin Laden and al-Qaeda, not by the politicians in Washington. The politicians in Washington let it be stolen, but it was bin Laden who orchestrated the theft.
To be clear, the money did not go to al-Qaeda; it went to pay for the wars and the tax cuts. The tax cuts cost about half of the value of the Social Security Trust Fund, and most of the benefits of the tax cuts went to the wealthy. As a result, a large percentage of the money that was “stolen” from the Social Security Trust Fund went, effectively, to wealthy Americans. Given this, it seems fair to me that wealthy Americans should lose some Social Security benefits. Christie’s plan to fix Social Security cuts benefits to wealthy Americans. Therefore, I support Christie’s plan.
Christie said that the theft of Social Security would stop if he was elected President. In order to stop this “theft,” he would have to balance the budget. If the U.S. would balance its budget, the government would have to either raise taxes or reduce services to fund any new or ongoing wars. This would prevent wars from adding to the national debt and would ensure that all Americans shared in the costs of war.
Christie’s answer to this man’s question convinced me that he was the candidate who best understood the fiscal consequences of war. One day earlier, with his closing argument at his Hampton town hall, he had convinced me that he was the candidate who would be the most cautious about sending U.S. troops into harms way. And so, when I stood up to ask Christie my question, he was already in the lead to win my vote. Christie’s answers to my questions were not the answers I had hoped for, but his answers were better than I had expected given that he was hearing the questions for the first time, and from an unknown guy, in a town hall meeting, in New Hampshire.
The next day, on a ballot “[c]ommemorating the One Hundredth Anniversary (1916-2016) Of the New Hampshire Presidential Primary,” I filled in the oval next to Chris Christie’s name.
Transcript of My Questions and Governor Christie’s Answers
GOVERNOR CHRISTIE: No, no…no, the red check.
BILL TIDD: Thank you Governor. Um, I’m ah, one of the, ah, undecided independents. Um…
CHRISTIE: Bless you.
TIDD: The um, so here’s a chance to, ah, lock up my vote.
CHRISTIE: All right.
TIDD: Um, my question is: What do you believe was the objective of the 9/11 attacks?
CHRISTIE: What do I believe Al, al-Qaeda’s objective was of the 9/11 attacks?
TIDD: Yep.
CHRISTIE: I believe the objectives of the 9/11 attacks were twofold. First, were to prove to the world that al-Qaeda was a movement of great strength and great power, and a movement that needed to be both respected and feared. And second, I believe it was to inflict as much damage as possible on the American people because their leader and members of al-Qaeda believed that America, um, was a cause of great tumult and turmoil in their society and in their religion, and that they believe that our, that our lives should be governed by their religious beliefs, not the other way around, and they wanted to use that intimidation, and that death and violence to attempt to intimidate us into capitulating to their point of view.
Those are my two. But you got others? I’m happy to listen.
TIDD: Well that’s a much better answer than, ah, Governor Bush gave me.
Laughter and applause.
CHRISTIE: All right!
CHRISTIE: Are…are, are you considering anybody else? Or just me and Bush?
TIDD: Um, it’s pretty much, um…he, he didn’t answer the question.
CHRISTIE: I’m a winner then aren’t I?
TIDD: You’re ahead. You’re ahead.
Governor Christie celebrates with a little victory dance.
Laughter and cheers.
CHRISTIE: Go ahead though.
TIDD: Do you think there was anything else?
CHRISTIE: Do I think there was anything else? Listen, I can’t get inside the depraved mind of Osama bin Laden. Um, and I am sure there may have been other things that were going through his head, some that were personal, slights that he felt as a member of a very prominent, wealthy, Saudi family, towards our country and towards the royal family in Saudi Arabia, who we are supporters of. Um, I’m sure there may have a lot of other things going through the mind of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was the mastermind with O… bin Laden of that event. But I can’t read minds. I just believe both in what they said and how they acted, before, with the USS Cole, the Embassy bombings, that that was their intent, and that they slowly upgraded to the attack that they had. There may have been other things that went on in those depraved minds; I’d only be guessing. Those are the two things that I feel most firmly about.
TIDD: Can I read two sentences from the 9/11 Commission Report?
CHRISTIE: You may.
TIDD: You mentioned the attack, ah, on the USS Cole,
CHRISTIE: Yes sir.
TIDD: and as you know, we, there was no U…U.S. military response to that attack.
CHRISTIE: I am aware.
TIDD: Let’s see if I can hold this steady. [the sheet of paper]
TIDD: [Reading from a printed page]: In February 2001, a source reported that an individual who he identified as the big instructor, probably a reference to bin Laden, complained frequently that the United States had not yet attacked. According to the source, Bin Laden wanted the United States to attack, and if it did not, he would launch something bigger.
[No longer reading from the paper]: Seven months later he did launch something bigger.
And…this statement strongly suggests…and, and many other statements that bin Laden made, that, that he, that one of the objectives of the 9/11 attacks was to get us to invade Afghanistan.
The, our invasion of that, that war, or that nation, and, and then later Iraq, ignited wars that raged out of control for years. Today those wars are estimated to have cost over four trillion dollars. To put that in perspective, that’s more than the sum of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds.
That we let al-Qaeda do that much damage to our nation is just…unbelievable.
I believe the 9/11 attacks were just the trigger and the archetype of the much larger attacks that followed. I believe they were the knives that al-Qaeda used to hijack our military and turn it into a weapon of fiscal mass destruction.
I’d like to know…if you are elected President, would you prevent that from happening again?
Applause from one person (the man sitting in front of me who had been raising his hand)
CHRISTIE: Well, um, it, it depends…
Let me answer it this way. I think we all, I think many of us, not all of us. I think many of us would look back on the Iraq war, and say that it was mistake–I do–based upon flawed information that the President was given at the time. And, I think if many of the folks who made those decisions had the chance to make those decisions again, they’d do it differently, based upon what we know today.
On Afghanistan, it’s a much trickier issue. On Afghanistan, the real question becomes, if we’re going to get into a battle like that, as a way of trying to prevent a place from being a breeding ground and a staging ground for attacks on our nation, the question is, how do you contain their ability over the long haul to do that?
One of the things that bothers me the most about Afghanistan, and I’m bothered much more by the Iraqi war than the Afghanistan war. But what bothers me the most about Afghanistan is the President’s desire, this current President’s desire, to pull out of there, and to essentially cede back everything that we fought for over the last, nearly fifteen years now, fourteen years. Um, we still have troops in, in Western Europe. We still have troops in Korea. We have them there because we are trying to preserve gains that we made, in those areas, so that things would not devolve back to their old state. I think in the main those actions have been fairly successful in maintaining a kind of a peace and the status quo, in those areas.
So, my view on Afghanistan is we had to do something to arrest out the al-Qaeda training grounds, and we needed to disrupt their networks. And I think all of those things were fairly effective in preventing future terrorist attacks in the next seven years, in the United States, on American soil.
So I would disagree with the Iraqi war; I don’t disagree with the war in Afghanistan. But what I do disagree with is that, what we didn’t do in Iraq, and what we’re looking like we won’t do in Afghanistan if this President has his way, is to keep a stabilizing force there for a period of time, to be able to buttress up that government and not have us devolve into what we have devolved into now, certainly in Iraq, and what we could devolve into in Afghanistan.
I understand your question. You are saying they suckered us. That what they were looking to do was bankrupt us. Get us into a war we couldn’t win. Sucker us into it, and do that. You know, I think you might have been giving them too much credit. I think bin Laden wanted to be attacked because bin Laden wanted to be in a fight with the United States because it enhanced his credibility, in that part of the world, enhanced his power and authority if we chose him, of all the different Hezbollah, Hamas, al-Nusra, all the different groups, that we picked them, to launch war against, I think that enhances him in that way.
I think you might be get, giving him too much credit on the sucker punch to, to try to destroy us economically. I could be wrong. We’re both attempting to take some lines from the 9/11 report, and others, um, and read his mind again. So, I would agree with you on the Iraqi war. I think we disagree on the Afghanistan war. But what I do know is that we should have been solidifying the safety and security that we brought to those places by leaving a small force there, like we did in Europe, like we did in Korea, to try solidify those gains so we don’t have the unrest that we have now, because the unrest we have now in Iraq, for certain, in Afghanistan is bubbling, again, um, I think, may make us all feel like, even more convinced, that those efforts would have been worthless, and I don’t think we should do that. I think that would be bad for America, and certainly bad for the fighting men and women who gave their lives and their limbs, um, in those efforts. So that’s kind of where I stand on it. But thank you; very thoughtful questions. I appreciate it.
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Two pieces look at Peak Oil, challenging today’s hype that fracked oil in North Dakota and Texas will solve America’s energy problems. “Symptoms of U.S. Decline” presents statistics that show the United States has fallen far behind all the other advanced countries and even many from the third world on a wide range of indices from education to infrastructure, poverty, homelessness, healthcare, upward mobility, economic inequality, and prison populations.
“The Strange Case of Ahmad Kamal” tells how the CIA in the 1950s foolishly introduced the Muslim Brotherhood into Europe in hopes it would win over Soviet Muslims, as well as the story of the American adventurer Cimarron Hathaway, who, under the pseudonym of Ahmad Kamal, devoted his life to fighting for the independence of the Muslim peoples of Turkestan. “The Left and the Jews,” traces the attitude of the Marxist and anarchist left toward the Jews. Originally antisemitic, the socialist and Marxist Left came to welcome assimilationist Jews, while remaining hostile to Jewish national aspirations, calling on the Jews to disappear as an identifiable people.
“Why the Middle East Is Always in Crisis” traces the fatal decisions of the Western Powers at the end of World War I to create states in the former Ottoman Empire that threw together peoples with profound religious and ethnic hostilities, making the Middle East a region of perpetual violent turmoil.
“Bygone Days in West Adams” looks at some of the people and their homes in this once vaunted community on the edge of Downtown Los Angeles, from the days when a former gunslinger and singing waiter could become the richest man in America and an Italian immigrant farm worker could found the largest winery in the country.
“The Hunger Ahead” looks at the end of the Green Revolution as population continues its geometric growth, while arable land erodes, aquifers are drained, and global warming increasingly imperils food supplies.
Others look at the modern dictators and their opponents, the rightward evolution of the Republican Party, recent discoveries about the ancient religion known as Gnosticism, and L. Frank Baum’s Oz books.
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Here from The Shaggy Man’s Place (www.shaggyman.com), everything from ecological crises and religious wars to Edwardian authors, the scandal plagued city of Vernon, early computer games, and local Los Angeles history.
International oil production has been frozen since 2005 while demand from our 7 billion and growing global population continues upward, forcing prices of oil, gasoline, and food ever higher. Our political leaders stake our future on a strategy of economic growth just as the planet is hitting its physical limits on nonrenewable resources, from oil to farmland to potable water. Here is a close look at what we really are up against — along with a review of the really bad experience with the Marxist alternative system.
Since the Enlightenment we have expected religion to fade away. Instead it has become central to the identity of millions, from the Christian Right to Jihadi Islam, with ominous consequences. The media treats each outbreak of violence by jihadi militants as a separate event. They are also part of a global Islamic awakening that began after World War II and aspires to world hegemony for Islam, as Christianity once did a thousand years ago. Here is a look at the aims of the most famous of the jihadi theorists, Egyptian martyr Sayyid Qutb, a survey of Islamic battles on a world scale, and a critique of those who underestimate this foe.
And on a lighter note, pieces on an odd leftist bookstore in Missoula, Montana, called Freddy’s Feed and Read, fabulist author Lord Dunsany, George Bernard Shaw, western lawman Wyatt Earp, a Romanian novelist who challenged Ceausescu and survived him, socialist millionaire John Randolph Haynes who gave California the ballot box initiative system that has become so troublesome today, and Doctor Margaret “Mom” Chung, daughter of a prostitute, who took out Mary Pickford’s tonsils and adopted 1500 U.S. airmen and submariners in World War II into her club, called The Fair-Haired Bastards.
Leslie Evans, author of Outsider’s Reverie and proprietor of The Shaggy Man’s Place website, is a former Trotskyist, one-time iron miner, erstwhile editor for UCLA’s Asian Studies centers, the World Bank and the World Health Organization, and activist in Los Angeles’ historic inner city West Adams neighborhood. The Shaggy Man, a wanderer from Kansas, is a character in the Oz books by L. Frank Baum.
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Outsider’s Reverie
Leslie Evans grew up in a home steeped in the lore of ghostly apparitions, spirit guides, star charts, and the astral plane. His parents met at a séance conducted by a dead thirteenth century crusader. In high school he called himself an outsider, beginning a quest for mystic experience. At Los Angeles City College he organized a student political party with black nationalist ideologue Ron Karenga.
In 1961 he was recruited to the Socialist Workers Party, American followers of Leon Trotsky. Over the next twenty years he rose to serve as managing editor of the English news service of the Trotskyist Fourth International, under Joseph Hansen, who had been Trotsky’s secretary and had captured Trotsky’s assassin. He was editor of the party’s theoretical magazine and the group’s China specialist, where he befriended Peng Shu-tse, an early leader of the Chinese Communist Party who once outranked Mao Zedong.
In the 1960s the SWP masterminded anti-Vietnam War demonstrations that brought more protesters to Washington, D.C., than the entire city population. He chronicles the party’s growth in the mass antiwar movement, then its implosion in the early 1980s when younger party leaders turned on the old guard and staked their future on winning influence with Fidel Castro. Evans spent three years on the Mesabi Iron Range in northern Minnesota, two of them working in the iron mines. In later years he worked as web journalist for UCLA’s International Institute, and carried out assignments for the World Health Organization and the World Bank.
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A grown-up Romeo and Juliet romance
Author Kate Hardy gives us an insight into her fabulous Romeo and Juliet romance: His Shy Cinderella. Family rivalry, unexpected love and a down-to-earth heroine – what’s not to love!
I’d always wanted to write a grown-up Romeo and Juliet romance. It was while I was wandering around the grounds of a country house with my husband and saw a vintage car rally in the grounds) that the idea came to me.
Supposing my hero’s and heroine’s grandfathers were best friends, went into business together building cars, fell out, and then became deadly rivals? And so, we have the Stones, who make racing cars (and the sons are racing drivers); and the McKenzies, who make affordable sports cars.
Angel’s family business is in trouble, but she has the chance of rescuing it by building a car especially for a film franchise. (Think James Bond-ish). Her big love is designing cars, so it’s the perfect opportunity for her – except the bank is threatening to call in her overdraft.
Brandon’s rather lost his way since his older brother was killed in a racing accident and his father had a heart attack, meaning that Brandon had to take over the family business. He thinks that buying McKenzie’s (and ending the family rivalry) will make things right again. And his (rather stupid) Plan A is to schmooze Angel into doing what he wants.
What he doesn’t bargain for is falling in love with her. Angel McKenzie isn’t what he was expecting at all. She’s shy – very much a Cinderella (although there are no horrible sisters here), but as he draws her out he discovers that he really, really likes her. And although Angel tries to resist him, and challenge him every step of the way, she finds that she falls for the man behind the public image. Brandon’s more than just Prince Charming, the ex-racing champion. And the more they get to know each other, the more they find they have in common.
What I like about my heroine is that she’s followed her heart and she’s working in the industry she really loves – even though traditionally it’s dominated by men. Yes, she’s a little shy and awkward in public, particularly in big noisy gatherings (for the same reason that I am – hearing aids aren’t brilliant in noisy rooms so I have to rely on lip reading and it does mean you miss things). But she believes in her family business, she stands up for her staff and she’s someone I’d be proud to call a friend.
What I like about my hero is that he has a soft side beneath the image of the glamorous racing driver. Brandon sings in the car. He wants a dog (and actually that’s the last appearance of my beloved Byron in a book – which makes me cry even thinking about it). He makes his secretary coffee instead of expecting her to wait on him. And I rather like his take on a marriage proposal…
Don’t miss this fabulous Romeo and Juliet romance, His Shy Cinderella by Kate Hardy – on sale now!
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In 2017, the Florida Highway Patrol had about 32 troopers working different shifts on the I-95 interstate, and the unincorporated parts of the county. Normally there were five or six officers per shift.[128]
The Clerk is the recorder of all instruments required or authorized to be recorded in one general series of “Official Records” books. Upon payment of the statutory fees, the Clerk records and indexes a variety of important documents which in most cases are related to real estate. Examples of such documents include deeds, mortgages, liens, contracts, affidavits, subdivision plats, surveys, declarations of condominium, bills of sale, judgments, certificates of military discharge, and declarations of domicile.
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Our primary focus is on Transylvania County, large acreage in Western North Carolina, and communities of thoughtful design. Brevard is the county seat for Transylvania county and consequently Looking Glass Realty’s headquarters. We have selected this area for its boundless natural beauty and protected state and federal forest lands. With land at a scarcity we have developed a love for finding unique land holdings for a wide range of uses sought after by our clients. We also have a profound knowledge of the communities and planned developments in our region. Our experience in these areas will often provide the useful insight that will direct you to the lifestyle you are seeking.
In 2010, 8.6% of the county’s population was foreign born, with 59.4% being naturalized American citizens. Of foreign-born residents, 49.1% were born in Latin America, 22.9% were born in Europe, 18.3% born in Asia, 6.4% in North America, 2.4% born in Africa, and 0.9% were born in Oceania.[81]
In February 2010, the USDA declared that Brevard, along with of 59 other Florida counties, was a “primary natural disaster area”. This happened when the temperature falls below 28 °F (−2 °C)c degrees for 4 hours, where crops are being grown.[177]
The County elects a sheriff, directly responsible to the courts but also to the state for the enforcement of state laws. Police chiefs, appointed by their cities or towns, perform the same function locally. There is no overlap in jurisdictions. Some volunteers work alongside paid professionals.[116]
The company developing West Viera gained state permission and county acquiescence to create a self-governing board that could raise taxes and sell bonds to pay for roads, water lines, pumping stations and other infrastructure needed to support the construction of 16,500 houses, apartments and condominiums. The company proved that development could fund itself.[164]
Ann Johnson has been a freelance writer since 1995. She previously served as the editor of a community magazine in Southern California and was also an active real-estate agent, specializing in commercial and residential properties. She has a Bachelor of Arts in communications from California State University, Fullerton.
The winter of 2009–2010 was the coldest on record since 1937 when records were first kept.[36] Planting season, which normally starts around 14 February, came six weeks later instead.[37] Some flowers and herbs are planted as early as January.[38] December 2010 was the coldest December on record.[39]
In 2010 Kiplinger.com rated the county one of five “best” places in America to retire. Factors evaluated included cost of living, weather, the number of doctors, taxes, crime rates and recreational opportunities.[162]
Easily arrange and sort through all of them based on price, property type, square footage, lot size or building age. You can also use any specific keywords you may want to narrow down your search to only the most relevant properties. Stay up to date with real estate opportunities in Brevard County, FL, by simply saving your search; you’ll receive daily or weekly emails (your choice) from Point2 Homes, with new listings which fit your criteria, while they’re fresh on the market.
Located halfway between Jacksonville and Miami, Brevard County extends 72 miles (116 km) from north to south, and averages 26.5 miles (42.6 km) wide. Marshes in the western part of this county are the source of the St. Johns River. Emphasizing its position as halfway down Florida is the presence of two roads that are halfway down Florida’s numbering system, State Road 50 and State Road 500.
Eriksen, John (1994). Brevard County, Florida: A Short History to 1955. Melbourne, Florida: JohnEriksen.net/. ASIN B076H69FDW. – This is a documented history of Brevard County, from prehistoric to the space age. Documented with 320 end notes drawn from 1000 sources.
If you’re certain that this place is your dream home, tell the seller. Send a handwritten letter explaining why you want the property, and your hopes for it. That human connection could be a significant factor in the seller’s decision.
Prior to the creation of districts in 1967, state representatives were elected by county. Beginning in 1967, Brevard County was represented by the 71st, 72nd, 73rd, and 74th districts. Following redistricting in 1970, the county was represented by the 44th, 45th, 46th, 47th and 48th districts. Following redistricting in 1982, the county was represented by the 31st, 32nd, 33rd, 34th, 77th, and 78th districts. Following redistricting in 1992, the county was represented by the 29th, 30th, 31st, and 32nd districts. Following redistricting in 2002, the county was represented by the 29th, 30th, 31st, 32nd, and 80th districts.
The States Attorney’s Office sponsors the Victim/Witness Services.[120] This provides advocates to alleged victims of violent crime and their families. The advocate helps the family understand the legal system as they navigate through it. They also seek out financial assistance or counseling they might need. In 2005 they helped 8,448 alleged victims in Brevard County.
The Dark Years: In the late 1990s many of the smaller agencies were acquired by larger companies, breaking many of the MLS relationships that existed. More software options came in (all in competition) and, as the software houses did not work together, their collectives of agents became fragmented by non-collaborative out-of-group software restraints. With large property portals gaining ground in the 2000s agents in the UK started working alone as all could upload to the same portal platforms.
Brevard County is the sole county in the Palm Bay – Melbourne – Titusville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area (formerly the Melbourne-Titusville-Cocoa, Florida Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area and Melbourne-Titusville-Palm Bay, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area).
Bahrain Real Estate Multilevel Listing Solution – mlsBH is a localized and enhanced version of RETS based MLS service but still in its early stage of implementation and integration within the property sector of Bahrain. mlsBH is owned and operated by a private company[15] since 2015[16] and unlike conventional MLS; is not restricted to dealing with brokers only. Via RealtorBH; a set of FSRBO classes which along with extended broker classes are facilitated to directly submit their exclusive listings, which after verification are centralized in mlsBH. Furthermore it also directly syndicates centralized listings on RealtyBH – a local comparable of US’ Zillow. With the introduction of Bahrain RERA in 2018 operators of mlsBH aligned themselves with the policies of the regulator.
We provide a wide range of services designed to help Twin Cities area home sellers. We have experienced & licensed Realtors® in your area to help you get your home sold fast and for the highest possible price.
Inc. magazine selected two local small companies as among the fastest growing in the country over the past three years – Applied Global Technology (nearly 100% annually) and Stops (nearly 200% annually).
The taxable value of property went from $20 billion in 2002 to $40 billion in 2007. In 2009 the bubble burst and a rapid descent to $24 billion was experienced. in 2017, the value rose to $35 billion. The last figure includes new construction.[154]
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Many with MLIS degrees use their professional skills in positions without “librarian” in the job title. The San Jose State University School of Information publishes an annual research report on emerging career trends for information professionals, providing a snapshot of job titles in the field.[12]
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Home » News » Sky Sports win 5-year £600m Football League streaming deal
Sky Sports win 5-year £600m Football League streaming deal
Tom Rodgers Thursday, 14 September, 2017
Sky Sports will start streaming every midweek Football League matches after bidding £600 million for the rights over five years.
The deal gives Sky a stronger grip over the the lower leagues of English football after facing serious competition from BT Sport for exclusive rights.
From the start of the 2019/20 season until May 2024 Sky Sports Football will show up to 183 matches live each year in the Sky Bet Championship, League One and Bet League Two.
The EFL made the point that every club will have the right to stream their own matches on their websites if Sky are not broadcasting them live.
More: Sky Sports drop channels, slash prices in bidding war
Earlier this year Sky paid £4.2bn a season for the rights to show 120 Premier League matches until 2019, a bump of nearly 70 per cent on the previous contract. Despite this Sky audiences as a whole have dropped by 14% over the past 12 months.
These negotiations came at what was an incredibly challenging period in the sale and acquisition of sports rights in the UK and, having fully tested the market, we believe that not only has a significant increase in value for our clubs been achieved, but also the very best deal, with the best partner has been delivered.
In agreeing a deal over five seasons, it delivers a guaranteed increase in the level of income distributed to EFL Clubs from 2019/20 and long-term financial certainty was an absolute priority throughout this process.
Saturday streams still blocked
Livestreams will still be taken down if they appear from 2.15pm to 5.15pm on Saturdays to encourage more fans to watch games live.
Reports: Half of all football fans watch Premier League illegally
The deal represents a 36% year-on-year increase on the current setup.
Under the terms if the deal, in each season from 2019/20 Sky Sports will broadcast 16 Championship games on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings,
a minimum of 20 League One and League Two matches and the 15 EFL Play-Off matches including all three finals.
Sky will also broadcast 15 matches from the Carabao Cup including the final, and the semi-final and final of the Checkatrade Trophy.
By: Tom Rodgers
Tom is a tech journalist and former Editor at BroadbandDeals.co.uk.
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Taliaferro v. Coakley
Concerned Citizens of Palm Desert v. Bd. of Super
The summary judgment procedure is applicable to mandamus proceedings. ( Stanton v. Dumke, 64 Cal.2d 199, 207…
Stanton v. Dumke
He is thus in no position to complain of failure to rehire him for the ensuing year or to maintain a mandamus…
Full title:EUGENE A. TALIAFERRO, Appellant, v. THOMAS COAKLEY, Judge of the Superior…
Court:Court of Appeal of California, First District, Division One
Court of Appeal of California, First District, Division One
Docket No. 18892.
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Contra Costa County. Hugh H. Donovan, Judge. Affirmed.
Eugene A. Taliaferro, in pro. per., for Appellant.
John A. Nejedly, District Attorney, Charles L. Hemmings, Chief Civil Deputy District Attorney, and Charles R. Mack, Deputy District Attorney, for Respondent.
BRAY, P.J.
Plaintiff appeals from a judgment in favor of defendant Coakley after order granting motion for summary judgment.
QUESTIONS PRESENTED
1. Will summary judgment apply in a mandamus proceeding?
2. Will summary judgment lie when no answer is filed?
3. Effect of failure to file counteraffidavit.
4. Failure to file points and authorities on motion.
Plaintiff as a taxpayer sued defendant Coakley, the Judge of the Superior Court of Mariposa County (who presided pro tem. in the Superior Court of Contra Costa County in actions in which plaintiff was involved), the Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County, the County Treasurer, the District Attorney, the Controller of the State of California and the Attorney General. The gist of his action is that defendant Coakley wrongfully received payments of travel expenses and salary, for which plaintiff prays judgment, and also asks that a writ of mandate issue ordering the other defendants to investigate and bring suit and take other proceedings for the recovery of said payments. Defendant Coakley, without answering, filed a motion for summary judgment, filing an affidavit in support thereof. Plaintiff filed no counter-affidavit. The other defendants did not participate in the motion. The court granted the motion.
1. Summary Judgment in Mandate.
2. Answer Not Required.
[1] Loveland City of Oakland69 Cal.App.2d 399 159 P.2d 70 [2] Gale Wood112 Cal.App.2d 650 247 P.2d 67 Loveland City of Oakland, supra, 69 Cal.App.2d 399 159 P.2d 70 Eagle Oil Ref. Co. Prentice, 19 Cal.2d 553 122 P.2d 264
In 1957 (Stats. 1957, ch. 1457, § 1, p. 2780) the section was amended in part. This amendment is not material here.
3. No Counteraffidavit.
The only cause of action in which plaintiff seeks judgment against defendant Coakley is the first; the other four causes of action prayed only for writs against the other defendants, none of whom have been served. [3] Defendant filed an affidavit setting forth facts which completely negate the charges concerning him in the first cause of action. Plaintiff filed no counteraffidavit. As we said in Nini v. Culberg, 183 Cal.App.2d 657 [ 7 Cal.Rptr. 146], "The motion must be determined on facts set forth in the affidavits, and not on allegations of the complaint." (P. 663.) In Cone v. Union Oil Co., 129 Cal.App.2d 558, 563 [ 277 P.2d 464], the court said: "Often there is no genuine issue of fact, although such an issue is raised by the formal pleadings. Absent a genuine issue of fact as disclosed by the affidavits, a party is not entitled to proceed to trial and the court, applying the law to the uncontroverted material facts, may render a summary judgment." In our case, plaintiff in not filing a counteraffidavit or affidavits failed to show that there was a genuine issue of fact in the case, and the court had no alternative but to grant the motion.
[4] Defendant filed his "Affidavit for Summary Dismissal Pursuant to C.C.P. 437c" on December 22, 1958. On February 6, 1959, plaintiff filed a second amended complaint in which he set up a fifth cause of action dealing with an action in which defendant presided as judge, different from the one involved in the other four causes of action. Plaintiff contends that defendant's affidavit sets forth no facts concerning the matters alleged in the fifth cause of action, and therefore summary judgment as to that cause of action should not have been granted. No cause of action against defendant is stated therein, nor is any relief against him sought. The alleged cause of action is one seeking to mandamus the district attorneys of certain counties and the attorney general to prosecute defendant for alleged perjury. As to this cause of action no affidavit was necessary to show that as to defendant there was no issue of fact to be tried.
4. Points and Authorities on Motion.
[5] Defendant did not accompany his notice of motion for summary judgment with any points and authorities. Rule 3(a) of Rules for the Superior Courts provides: "A party filing a notice of motion . . . shall serve and file therewith a memorandum of points and authorities to be relied upon. The absence of the memorandum may be construed by the court as an admission that the motion is not meritorious and cause for its denial." (Emphasis added.) This section is not mandatory. Notwithstanding this rule the court, in its discretion, may consider the motion in spite of the absence of points and authorities. In his affidavit defendant stated that the motion was made under section 437c, Code of Civil Procedure. The sole question to be determined by the court was whether any issue of fact existed. This was a question of fact to be determined from the affidavit or affidavits presented. The absence of authorities other than the code section did not compel a dismissal of the motion.
Judgment affirmed.
Tobriner, J., and Duniway, J., concurred.
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U.S. v. Ahuja
U.S. v. Restrepo
In addition, the government offered evidence that these defendants, as well as Ospina, were the subjects of…
U.S. v. Campbell
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Full title:UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, APPELLEE, v. MICHAEL AHUJA, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT
Court:United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Date published: Jun 12, 1991
936 F.2d 85 (2d Cir. 1991)
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
No. 1378, Docket 90-1044.
Argued July 18, 1990.
Roger L. Stavis, New York City (Steven R. Kartagener, Kartagener Stavis, of counsel), for defendant-appellant Michael Ahuja.
Matthew E. Fishbein, Asst. U.S. Atty., for the E.D.N.Y., Brooklyn, N.Y. (Andrew J. Maloney, U.S. Atty., for E.D.N.Y., Beryl A. Howell, Asst. U.S. Atty., for E.D.N.Y., of counsel), for appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Before WINTER, MAHONEY and WALKER, Circuit Judges.
MAHONEY, Circuit Judge:
Defendant-appellant Michael Ahuja takes this appeal from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, I. Leo Glasser, Judge, that sentenced Ahuja to a term of twenty-four months imprisonment, together with a fine of $10,000, a special assessment of fifty dollars, and a three year term of supervised release, upon his guilty plea to seven counts of assisting the attempted escape of a federal prisoner in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 752(a) (1988), and one count of conspiracy to commit six of those offenses in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371 (1988).
Ahuja's conviction arose from attempts that he made to bribe New York City police officers in order to effect the escape of a number of federal prisoners. He appeals on the grounds that the grouping of the counts to which he pleaded guilty was improper under U.S.S.G. § 3D1.2, and that the district court's upward departure of six months above the guideline maximum was improper.
We affirm.
After the New York City police ascertained that Michael Ahuja was interested in bribing a member of that department, an undercover New York City policeman posing as a corrupt officer was introduced to Ahuja. The two men were in contact for about two months when, in January 1989, Ahuja met with the officer to request assistance in the escape of four federal prisoners who had recently been arrested at a Queens warehouse while loading a truck with some $18,000,000 in cash. In the course of that discussion, Ahuja made a telephone call to obtain the names of the prisoners. The names were Alexander Lara, Carlos Andrade, Omar Ospina, and Aguilera Martinez, which correspond to counts two through five of the indictment herein, respectively.
At a second meeting a few days later, Ahuja and the undercover officer agreed upon a price of $300,000 for the escape of the four prisoners, $50,000 of which would be paid in advance. This down payment was delivered by one of Ahuja's accomplices to a second undercover officer, and it was thereafter agreed that Ahuja would receive a $50,000 kickback from the officers upon delivery of the balance. About three weeks later, Ahuja met with the second officer again and told him that he wished to arrange the escape of a new "customer" who had been arrested in the Bronx the previous evening, one Jimmy Santos. The contemplated Santos escape is the subject of count six of the indictment herein, the only substantive count not incorporated in count one, the conspiracy count.
In March 1989, at the request of the undercover officers, Ahuja delivered four business suits, purportedly for the use of the four original escapees. At or about this time, Ahuja brought up the possible release of two additional prisoners who were in federal custody in Houston, Texas, Henry Cortez and Fernando Cardona. These contemplated escapees are the subject of counts seven and eight of the indictment herein. Through subsequent meetings, Ahuja and the officers agreed upon a price of $175,000, with a $30,000 down payment, for the escape of the Texas prisoners. Before any payments were made on this agreement, however, Ahuja was arrested in April 1989 by New York State authorities.
In November 1989, Ahuja pled guilty to all eight counts of the indictment herein. The presentence report grouped the conspiracy offense together with the substantive offenses, in accordance with U.S.S.G. § 3D1.2(b). The substantive counts, however, were divided into two separate groups, one relating to the prisoners in New York and the other relating to the prisoners in Texas, again in reliance upon U.S.S.G. § 3D1.2(b). This separate grouping resulted in a two-level enhancement pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 3D1.4. Because this increase was offset by the only other adjustment suggested, a two-level decrease for acceptance of responsibility, the report concluded that Ahuja should be sentenced at the base offense level for a substantive escape count, which U.S.S.G. § 2P1.1(a)(1) sets at thirteen. The district court adopted this calculation of Ahuja's offense level, which resulted in a guideline range of twelve to eighteen months. For reasons discussed hereinafter, however, the district court elected to depart upwardly and sentenced Ahuja to a term of imprisonment of twenty-four months.
This appeal followed.
A. Grouping of Offenses.
U.S.S.G. § 3D1.1(a)(1) requires that when a defendant has been convicted of more than one count, the court must initially "[g]roup the counts resulting in conviction into distinct Groups of Closely-Related Counts (`Groups') by applying the rules specified in § 3D1.2." As pertinent here, section 3D1.2 provides:
All counts involving substantially the same harm shall be grouped together into a single Group. . . . Counts involve substantially the same harm within the meaning of this rule:
(a) When counts involve the same victim and the same act or transaction.
(b) When counts involve the same victim and two or more acts or transactions connected by a common criminal objective or constituting part of a common scheme or plan. . . .
(c) When one of the counts embodies conduct that is treated as a specific offense characteristic in, or other adjustment to, the guideline applicable to another of the counts.
Applying these criteria, the district court separated the contemplated New York and Texas escapes into two groups. Ahuja contends that his offense level was thus improperly enhanced two levels, see U.S.S.G. § 3D1.4, because the seven substantive escape counts should have been grouped as a single sentencing unit. He argues that the addition of the two Texas prisoners to what he characterizes as an ongoing escape plan did not warrant separate grouping. We disagree.
Although Ahuja was in occasional contact with the undercover officers for over five months, the district court correctly rejected the notion of a single escape plan. Two distinct bribery payments were independently negotiated for the separate escapes of two prisoner groups located in different states. Indeed, Ahuja never broached the subject of aiding prisoners in Texas until more than a month after making a down payment on the escape of the New York prisoners. Mere similarities between the agreements do not make them a common plan. Cf. United States v. Bakhtiari, 913 F.2d 1053, 1062 (2d Cir. 1990) (two escape attempts separated by three months considered distinct offenses), cert. denied, ___ U.S. ___, 111 S.Ct. 1319, 113 L.Ed.2d 252 (1991).
B. Upward Departure.
At sentencing, the district court elaborated upon two grounds underlying the six month upward departure to a total prison term of twenty-four months:
What Mr. Ahuja was negotiating about was to release — obtain the release of four major, major money launders [sic] who were obviously also involved in major narcotics offenses. . . .
There is the bribery element which went into this offense. I'll not penalize Mr. Ahuja for bribery. He wasn't convicted of, although he could have been. . . . [T]he bribery guideline is something in the area of 20 which would start at about 33 months, when one stops to consider the three hundred thousand dollars that was involved in the bribe attempt, [and] the additional points which are added to the fact that it's a law enforcement officer who was being bribed. . . .
It's not just passing a little saw to somebody in a federal institution to cut through a bar, somebody who is there because he was engaged in illegal gambling. You are dealing with six major figures involving 18 million dollars and the bribery of two New York City policemen in the process. . . .
On appeal, Ahuja has attacked only one departure ground — the seriousness of the charges on which the would-be escapees were being held. The applicable guideline at the time of Ahuja's sentencing, see 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(4) (1988), provided a base offense level for escape, instigating or assisting escape of "(1) 13, if the custody or confinement is by virtue of an arrest on a charge of felony, or conviction of any offense; [and] (2) 8, otherwise." U.S.S.G. § 2P1.1(a).
Ahuja argues that this five level distinction, grounded on whether the charge the escapee faces is a felony or a misdemeanor, demonstrates that the seriousness of the escapee's offense is a circumstance that the Sentencing Commission not only considered, but acted upon. This argument is not without force. Moreover, although a factor actually incorporated in the guidelines may nonetheless warrant departure if present "to a degree" not adequately considered by the Commission, see 18 U.S.C. § 3553(b) (1988), it is a fairly close question whether the gravity of money laundering, even on this grand scale, would be sufficiently unusual to justify departure. We need not resolve, however, the issue whether the gravity of the prisoners' offenses would, standing alone, warrant departure, since the district court invoked an adequate independent ground for the upward departure; to wit, the attempted bribery of law enforcement officers.
Some circuits have taken the view that "[w]hen one of two or more stated reasons for departure is invalid, the case must be remanded for resentencing because the reviewing court cannot determine whether the same departure would have resulted absent the improper factor." United States v. Zamarripa, 905 F.2d 337, 342 (10th Cir. 1990); see United States v. Michael, 894 F.2d 1457, 1460 n. 2 (5th Cir. 1990) (although district court placed greater emphasis upon a factor that alone provided reasonable basis for departure, "we cannot say that it did not also rely upon the [improper] factor as a necessary part of the basis for its departure"); United States v. Hernandez-Vasquez, 884 F.2d 1314, 1315-16 (9th Cir. 1989) (per curiam) (same).
Other circuits have held that "when a court relies on both proper and improper factors to justify an upward departure, the sentence can be upheld if, standing alone, the proper factors justify the magnitude of departure." United States v. Franklin, 902 F.2d 501, 508 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, ___ U.S. ___, 111 S.Ct. 274, 112 L.Ed.2d 229 (1990); see United States v. Rodriguez, 882 F.2d 1059, 1068 (6th Cir. 1989) (same), cert. denied, ___ U.S. ___, 110 S.Ct. 1144, 107 L.Ed.2d 1048 (1990); see also United States v. Hummer, 916 F.2d 186, 195 n. 8 (4th Cir. 1990) (Wilkins, J.) ( Franklin/Rodriguez rule "is more consistent with the `reasonableness' standard of departure under 18 U.S.C.A. § 3742" than Zamarippa/Hernandez-Vasquez rule), cert. denied, ___ U.S. ___ 111 S.Ct. 1608, 113 L.Ed.2d 670 (1991).
We recently adopted the latter view in the context of a downward departure. In United States v. Jagmohan, 909 F.2d 61, 65 (2d Cir. 1990), we upheld a sentence below the guidelines range despite the district court's specification of an inappropriate ground because the departure was reasonable in light of the two other bases cited. Cf. United States v. Ramirez, 910 F.2d 1069, 1071 (2d Cir.) (affirming denial of credit for acceptance of responsibility, despite partial reliance on an improper ground, because another clearly permissible basis existed), cert. denied, ___ U.S. ___, 111 S.Ct. 531, 112 L.Ed.2d 542 (1990).
On the other hand, we took a different approach in United States v. Joyner, 924 F.2d 454 (2d Cir. 1991), where the district court departed downward for both a permissible and an impermissible reason in sentencing two defendants. Deeming the departures "questionable," we concluded that "we need not adjudicate their reasonableness since the case must be remanded for resentencing with such departures as the District Judge deems warranted without reliance on the impermissible factor." Id. at 462.
It is implicit in these cases that a case-by-case approach should be taken with respect to departures. As a general rule, the Jagmohan approach seems a proper implementation of the statutory plan for both downward and upward departures. 18 U.S.C. § 3742(e)(3) (1988) provides that in reviewing guideline departures, we must determine whether the sentence
is unreasonable, having regard for —
(a) the factors to be considered in imposing a sentence, as set forth in chapter 227 of this title; and
(b) the reasons for the imposition of the particular sentence, as stated by the district court pursuant to the provisions of section 3553(c). . . .
Similarly, 18 U.S.C. § 3742(f)(2) calls for vacation and remand of a sentence that departs from the guidelines only if it is both "unreasonable" and, in the case of an upward departure, "too high," or, in the case of a downward departure, "too low." Section 3742(e) further directs that we "give due deference to the district court's application of the guidelines to the facts." This framework for appellate review focuses on the reasonableness of the sentence overall, not the correctness of any specific ground for departure that is asserted by the district court. See United States v. Stephenson, 921 F.2d 438, 441 (2d Cir. 1990) ("this Court reviews upward departures under a reasonableness standard") (citing United States v. Correa-Vargas, 860 F.2d 35, 36-37 (2d Cir. 1988)); Hummer, 916 F.2d at 195 n. 8.
On the other hand, the courts of appeals have statutory authority to remand any matter within their appellate jurisdiction and "require such further proceedings to be had as may be just under the circumstances." 28 U.S.C. § 2106 (1988); see McClain v. United States, 643 F.2d 911, 914 (2d Cir.) ("we may vacate appellant's entire sentence under the general supervisory powers granted us by 28 U.S.C. § 2106"), cert. denied, 452 U.S. 919, 101 S.Ct. 3057, 69 L.Ed.2d 424 (1981); see also United States v. Blackmon, 839 F.2d 900, 916-17 (2d Cir. 1988) (remanding for resentencing where some of concurrently sentenced convictions reversed); United States v. Sanjuro, 481 F.2d 638, 639 (2d Cir. 1973) (per curiam) (remanding for clarification of sentence imposed). Thus, for example, in cases where the impact of our invalidation of a departure ground is unclear or the sentence imposed by the district court strains the bounds of reasonableness, remand for resentencing may well be warranted. See Joyner, 924 F.2d at 462.
Applying these standards here, we conclude that affirmance, rather than remand, is appropriate. Wholly apart from the charges against the intended escapees, the six month upward departure in Ahuja's sentence was reasonable in light of his efforts to corrupt police officers with illegal bribes. The district court recognized that Ahuja was not convicted of bribery. Because the police officers were not federal officials, Ahuja could not be charged under the federal bribery statute. See 18 U.S.C. § 201 (1988). Nevertheless, as we made clear in United States v. Kim, 896 F.2d 678, 684 n. 3 (2d Cir. 1990), misconduct that relates to the offense of conviction, even though not technically covered by the definition of relevant conduct, see U.S.S.G. § 1B1.3, may support departure. See also United States v. Uccio, 917 F.2d 80, 86 (2d Cir. 1990); United States v. Schaper, 903 F.2d 891, 899 (2d Cir. 1990).
In our estimation, the district court reasonably concluded that the Sentencing Commission did not adequately consider the aggravating conduct here presented — attempts to corrupt law enforcement officials with substantial cash payments — when formulating the offense level for the crime of aiding an escape. Furthermore, the extent of departure was reasonable. The district court compared the twelve to eighteen month range that the Guidelines directed for the escape convictions with the more than three years that Ahuja would have faced for a conviction under the federal bribery statute. In this light, the enhancement of Ahuja's sentence was modest, and a legitimate exercise of the discretion provided by 18 U.S.C. § 3553(b) (1988).
As noted earlier, the district court stated at sentencing:
There is the bribery element which went into this offense. . . . I think the base offense level of the bribery guideline is something in the area of 20 which would start at about 33 months, when one stops to consider the [specific offense characteristics presented here].
Indeed, a federal bribery charge would probably have carried an offense level of 21. A violation of 18 U.S.C. § 201(1988) has a base offense level of 10, see U.S.S.G. § 2C1.1(a); the fact that more than one bribe was involved requires a two level increase, see id. § 2C1.1(b)(1); and the fact that the amounts to be received totaled $475,000 mandates a nine level enhancement, see id. §§ 2C1.1(b)(2)(A) and 2F1.1(b)(1)(J). Given Ahuja's criminal history level of I, an offense level of 21 would result in a guideline range of 37 to 46 months.
The judgment of conviction is affirmed.
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In An Era Of Team Science, Are Nobels Out Of Step?
With the 2020 Nobel prizes this week comes a recurrent question: has the world’s most...
With the 2020 Nobel prizes this week comes a recurrent question: has the world’s most prestigious awards for physics, chemistry and medicine — first conferred in 1901 — lost touch with the way modern science is conducted?
A century ago, landmark discoveries took place mostly in the mind or laboratory of a single individual.
More recently, big breakthroughs in the hard sciences are generally collaborations involving dozens, sometimes hundreds of researchers working in separate but interlocking fields.
Two teams totalling 1,500 scientists, for example, were behind the landmark detection earlier this year of a so-called intermediate mass black hole.
Major advances in science have also become hugely reliant on technology, sometimes used to detect phenomena theorised to exist before today’s scientists were even born Photo: AFP / Jonathan NACKSTRAND
Major advances in science have also become hugely reliant on technology, which is sometimes used — especially in physics — to detect phenomena theorised to exist before today’s scientists were even born.
“The Nobel Committee’s refusal to make an award to more than three people had led to manifest injustices,” Martin Rees, Britain’s Astronomer Royal since 1995 and former president of the Royal Society, told AFP.
Indeed, the recent history of the Nobels is littered with what some have called “deserving losers”, a fourth man or woman who would have likely shared in the prize without that limitation.
Rees cited the late Tom Kibble for his work on the elusive sub-atomic particle that came to be known as the Higgs boson.
Kip Thorne was one of three recipients of the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics for detecting gravitational waves Photo: GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / DAVID MCNEW
Others lament the failure to recognise American virologist Robert Gallo for his contribution to the discovery of HIV, Rosalind Franklin for her pioneering work on DNA, and Italian physicist Adalberto Giazotto for his role in detecting gravitational waves.
Giazotto died a month after the prize for that discovery was handed out in 2017.
2017 Nobel prize laureates, royals and guests attend the 2017 Nobel Banquet Photo: AFP / Jonathan NACKSTRAND
“It has also given a misleading impression of how ‘big science’ actually advances,” added Rees, who notes the prize has excluded “large tracts of science,” including mathematics and the environmental sciences.
Even the most ardent defenders of Nobel Prize and its arguably archaic rules acknowledge that science has shifted dramatically since the era of Einstein, Monsieur and Madame Curie, and Karl Landsteiner, the Austrian biologist who figured out in the 1920s that we have blood types.
“There has been an enormous change since the early 1900s,” Erling Norrby, a Swedish virologist and long-time pillar of the Nobel establishment, told AFP by phone.
“It is true that in modern science you often have very large groups of people interacting,” added Norrby, who helped confer Nobels in medicine for 25 years, and has cast votes for the prizes in physics and chemistry since the early 1980s.
“But the question is whether we can identify the one or two leaders. I think we can see who has taken the initiative.”
Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel science prize, and the only person to win one in two different disciplines (physics and chemistry) Photo: AFP / –
To some extent, faculty from the Karolinska Institute, which grants the Nobel for medicine, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, which does the same for physics and chemistry, have shifted with the times.
From 1920 to 1930, 23 of 30 awards were given to an individual scientist, and in the decade after World War II solo winners numbered 19.
In the first twenty years of this century, that has only happened on four occasions, with three-way awards given out 41 times.
In medicine, the number of possible recipients was expanded to three in 1934 (for the discovery of the B12 vitamin), with the first three-way prizes for chemistry and physics in 1946 and 1956, respectively.
But the rules have evolved no further, which means the Nobels cannot directly recompense the large, international experiments that have become the backbone of so much modern science.
Norrby conceded that Europe’s CERN — which runs the world’s particle physics laboratory and conducted the experiments to detect the Higgs boson — would probably have shared in that Nobel if the rules had allowed, as they do for the Peace Prize.
More recent science awards have done a better job in highlighting these large collaborations, said Rees.
“The Breakthrough and Gruber prizes — which honoured the discovery of gravitational waves before the Nobel Committee did — took a fairer approach in highlighting the leaders but explicitly recognising the whole team,” including monetarily, he noted.
“Their approach also gave a better impression of how this project actually achieved it amazing success.”
Stavros Katsanevas, director of the European Gravitational Observatory, whose Virgo gravitational wave antenna played a key role in the science behind the 2017 physics prize, is of two minds about the Nobels.
“It is difficult to identify key contributors in such global networks, this is true,” he told AFP.
“But I’m afraid that if you just give the prize to an experiment and the person leading it at the moment, you will dilute the impact.”
For Katsanevas, 21st century science stems not just from pure intellect but from having the vision, courage and organisational skills to pursue a new goal, or carve out a new discipline.
“When you try to do something new, you are considered a deserter by one camp, and an intruder by the other,” he said, noting that his has spent his career astride particle physics and astrophysics.
“The fact that someone dared to take a step that other didn’t — this still needs to be recognised.”
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PSC Transfers Vero Beach Electric Utility Customers, Rates Will Be Lower
Customers who currently are served by the City of Vero Beach’s municipal electric utility may see a 21 percent decrease in their bills after the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) today decided Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) should serve them.
The Commission directed FPL to charge customers in the added territory the same rates it charges its existing customers, which would result in an approximately $27 decrease on a typical 1,000 kWh monthly residential bill.
The decisions would go into effect only if the utilities close on their Asset Purchase and Sale Agreement (PSA) in which FPL would acquire Vero Beach’s electric utility assets and operations.
“Vero Beach customers will see many benefits from this acquisition, including lower rates, access to energy efficiency programs, and increased service reliability,” said Commissioner Gary F. Clark, adding “This Commission has always used the public interest as the measuring stick for its decisions, and today’s decision will have no adverse impact to existing FPL customers.”
The Vero Beach utility has approximately 35,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers in the City of Vero Beach, a portion of the Town of Indian River Shores, and part of unincorporated Indian River County. In today’s PSC meeting, several of those consumers and their elected officials asked the Commission to make them FPL customers.
The PSC does not have direct authority over changes in electric utility ownership, but changes in service territories and the rates that are charged require Commission approval.
FPL requested recognition for future ratemaking purposes of its investment of $116.2 million above the value of the assets it will acquire, and a majority of the Commission agreed.
Under the PSA terms, FPL will purchase the Vero Beach utility system for $185 million by December 31, 2018. FPL serves 4.9 million customer accounts across Florida.
For additional information, visit www.floridapsc.com.
Filed Under: Soup Du Jour Tagged With: Florida PSC, FPL, lower rates, PSC, utilitiess, Vero Beach
PSC Finds Need for New FPL Dania Beach Plant
The Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) today determined there is a need for Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) to replace its power plant in Broward County with a more efficient clean energy center. Expected to begin service in 2022, the new plant will increase system reliability at a reduced cost for FPL customers.
“The Dania Beach Clean Energy Center will save FPL customers from $299 to $364 million, as well as generate additional tax revenues for local governments and new jobs during the plant’s construction,” said PSC Chairman Art Graham. “The new plant will also reduce harmful air emissions, helping environmental quality.”
Commissioners agreed that retiring FPL’s existing Lauderdale plant this year, and reusing its infrastructure for the new facility is the most cost effective way to meet customers’ increasing power needs. Dania Beach will be a modernized 1,163 megawatt plant and will not require any new transmission lines, substation facilities, gas pipelines, or water supply. The project is expected to cost $888 million.
The existing Lauderdale plant has been upgraded or re-powered three times since its construction in 1925 as FPL’s first power plant. In contrast to Lauderdale, the new Dania Beach facility’s emission rates will be reduced by 95 percent for nitrogen oxide and by 22 percent for carbon dioxide, and its water allocation for power generation will be reduced by 1.0 to 1.69 million gallons per day.
FPL serves 4.9 million customer accounts across the state.
Filed Under: Soup Du Jour Tagged With: Broward County, Dania Beach, Florida Power & Light Company, Florida Public Service Commission, FPL
Florida PSC Approves Early Reduction of FPL Customers’ Bills
The Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) voted to reduce bills for Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) customers today, approving reductions to the fuel, capacity, and environmental cost recovery components of rates. The annual adjustment of those bill elements wasn’t due until next January, but the PSC can adopt “mid-course corrections” when deviation from expected costs warrants it.
FPL filed for the reductions to reflect savings expected from the early retirement of the St. Johns River Power Park generating facility, a decision approved by the PSC in October 2017.
The coal-fired St. Johns plant was retired on January 5, 2018, decreasing fuel and capacity costs. FPL’s environmental costs are reduced by $1.2 million as a result of the plant’s retirement.
FPL’s fuel cost recovery component will be reduced by $0.24 per month, and a similar reduction will be applicable to capacity cost recovery factors. The 2018 environmental cost recovery factor for the residential rate will decrease from 0.159 cents per kWh to 0.158 cents per kWh.
Effective March 1, 2018, the reduced cost recovery factors will decrease FPL’s monthly bills by $.38 (from $99.75 to $99.37) for a typical 1,000 kWh residential customer bill.
Filed Under: Soup Du Jour Tagged With: Customers’ Bills, Early Reduction, Florida Public Service Commission, FPL
Florida PSC Decides on FPL’s Environmental Recovery and Solar Project Costs
The Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) today found that Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) acted prudently in complying with environmental regulatory agencies’ requirements for its Turkey Point Cooling Canal Monitoring Plan. FPL asked to recover the plan’s costs through the PSC’s Environmental Cost Recovery Clause (ECRC).
The Commission found that while under the oversight of three different government agencies, and their respective monitoring requirements, none of the agencies found that FPL withheld or submitted false data. After a thorough review of the record, the PSC concluded that FPL was prudent in its actions and expenditures for the historic operation of Turkey Point’s Cooling Canal Monitoring Plan. As required for ECRC recovery, FPL’s monitoring plan is prudent and part of a government mandated regulation and, therefore, the plan’s costs are appropriate for recovery.
While finding that FPL acted prudently, the PSC disallowed recovery of the utility’s $1.5 million escrow payment required by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. FPL did not meet its burden of proof that the funds would be used to benefit FPL’s ratepayers. FPL’s 2017 and 2018 monitoring project costs and escrow payment removal are subject to true-up in future ECRC proceedings.
The PSC held an evidentiary hearing on October 25-27, 2017, which included parties from FPL, the Office of Public Counsel, the Florida Industrial Power Users Group, and the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.
Today, the PSC also approved FPL’s petition to recover its solar project costs through an increase in base rates, under the terms of its 2016 settlement. The PSC determined that FPL’s 2017 and 2018 solar projects are cost effective and are projected to save customers $96 million.
In its petition, FPL is proposing to build eight solar facilities to be located in Manatee, Charlotte, and DeSoto Counties. The projected in-service date for the 2017 solar projects is December 31, 2017, and the projected in-service date for the 2018 projects is March 1, 2018.
Filed Under: Soup Du Jour Tagged With: Environmental Recovery, Florida Public Service Commission, FPL, Solar Project Costs
Advocates win important first round against FPL’s leaking nuclear plant
Judge rules that citizen groups’ Clean Water Act challenge can move forward
The Honorable United States District Judge Darrin P. Gayles, after a hearing and de novo review of the record on November 16, 2017, denied Florida Power & Light’s (FPL) Motion to Dismiss the Plaintiffs’ lawsuit against FPL for violations of the Clean Water Act and National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit caused by their Turkey Point facility near Miami. Judge Gayles also adopted the recommendations and report of Magistrate Judge Otazo-Reyes who heard the case on August 3, 2017. Based on Judge Gayles’ ruling, the case will now likely be set for trial in 2018.
The Plaintiffs, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE), Friends of Everglades (FOE) and Tropical Audubon Society (TAS), maintain that FPL’s proposed remedies will not stem the pollution from the Turkey Point facility’s open industrial cooling canals. Mechanical draft cooling towers are the best available control technology to fix the underlying problems at Turkey Point along with the closure of the failed cooling canals to stop the pollution seeping to Biscayne Bay and Biscayne National Park, and prevent additional groundwater contamination into the Biscayne Aquifer, South Florida’s sole source drinking water aquifer.
“We are pleased with the judge’s ruling and look forward to our day in court. Once again, FPL has attempted to obstruct legal efforts to scrutinize their illegal behavior that has caused repeated and continuous violations of the Clean Water Act by operating an open industrial sewer at Turkey Point,” said Dr. Stephen A. Smith, executive director for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy. “FPL’s imprudent actions have led to historic and ongoing discharges to the surface waters of Biscayne Bay that impact water quality and public health and safety. FPL needs to take scientifically-sound, aggressive action to address the ongoing pollution and repair the damage that their Turkey Point facility has caused. Continuing to rely on this failed cooling system is nothing short of utility malpractice.”
“Improving the salinity regime of Biscayne Bay and returning estuarine conditions to the nearshore area to support wildlife are the main goals of the Biscayne Bay Coastal Wetlands Project, which is part of the 68 CERP projects within the Everglades Restoration Plan. The excessive salt loading from Turkey Point’s cooling canals is in direct conflict with these goals and with these large volumes of salt, there will likely be negligible improvements shown for the multi-million-dollar, tax-funded project. The decision to install cooling towers and the use of reuse water and the complete disconnection from the natural environment has the ability to make or break the success of this very important CERP project,” said Laura Reynolds, a consultant for Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.
In FPL’s Motion to Dismiss, and at last week’s hearing, FPL continued to allege that the 2016 Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Consent Order and the 2015 Florida Department of Environmental Resources Management (DERM) Consent Agreement was a bar to the lawsuit. FPL attempted to make the case that the state and local regulators had fully addressed surface-water pollution concerns that were raised in the lawsuit as the grounds for dismissing the lawsuit.
Dr. Jose Barros, president of Tropical Audubon Society, said, “Despite FPL’s objections to the decision, we are closer to getting our day in court to prove that FPL’s proposed actions are inadequate to protect our communities, our two national parks and our threatened wildlife. FPL and state regulators need to take the necessary steps to respect and protect these fragile ecosystems for the sake of our region’s health and safety. Building cooling towers will abate the salt loading into Biscayne Bay and the Southern Everglades caused by outdated cooling canals.”
Plaintiffs’ Attorney Gary Davis argued that while DEP and DERM addressed some elements of past ground-water pollution, they failed to address the full scope of surface water discharges and did nothing to abate the source of pollution. Davis argued that state and local regulatory efforts categorically failed to address the ongoing violations of FPL’s permits.
The Plaintiffs maintain that FPL’s cooling canal system will continue to harm Biscayne Bay and aquifer until comprehensive corrective action, such as replacing the antiquated cooling canals with new technology, is required.
“Judge Gayles’ decision represents an important, initial win for Floridians despite FPL’s continuing efforts to obstruct our case,” said Alan Farago, conservation chair of Friends of the Everglades. “With these threats to people and natural resources so clearly visible, we hope federal law can protect us when the state of Florida won’t. We’ve had our day in court and we will have another and another until FPL fixes its Turkey Point problems, once and for all.”
In a related proceeding, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) recently filed its brief with the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) arguing that customers should not have to pay for the cleanup of the underground contamination plume created by FPL’s negligent operation of the Turkey Point cooling canals for decades. The Commission will render a final decision on FPL’s request in the Environmental Cost Recovery Clause docket on December 12, 2017.
Find the September 20, 2017 Magistrate Judge Alicia M. Otazo-Reyes’ Report and Recommendation denying FPL’s Motion to Dismiss here.
Find the original July 13, 2016 Clean Water Act lawsuit filing here and the amended complaint filed on October 11, 2016 here.
A telepress conference held by the citizen groups from August 2, 2017, explaining their case can be downloaded here.
Find the filed, expert declaration from Kirk Martin, a hydro-geologist and president of Water Science Associates, explaining the inadequacies with the enforcement efforts by the State (DEP). In August the groups filed a supplemental expert declaration further explaining how the County (DERM) regulatory agreement was similarly inadequate.
Filed Under: Soup Du Jour Tagged With: FPL, nuclear plant
Sen. Jose Javier Rodriguez Proposes to Block FPL From Passing Turkey Point Clean-Up Costs onto Consumers
Following evidence of water contamination emanating from Turkey Point potentially impacting our drinking water and Biscayne Bay, that Florida Power & Light was aware of for years, Sen. Jose Javier Rodriguez (D-Miami) has filed legislation that would prevent FPL from asking customer to pay more to remediate the contamination. The bill would block utilities from recovering costs to remediate environmental damage they knowingly caused.
FPL has already made such a request. Yesterday, the Public Service Commission heard expert testimony on FPL’s request to charge customers $200 million in clean-up costs for the contamination coming from Turkey Point’s cooling canals. The Commission will vote in November on the request.
Sen. Rodriguez said:
“If FPL makes the mess, FPL shareholders should clean that mess up not consumers. FPL has known about water contamination coming from Turkey Point’s cooling canals for at least five years and potentially for decades and has done nothing while the problem worsened. It is outrageous that FPL would even think to ask consumers rather than their shareholders to shoulder the costs of an environmental mess they caused, tried to hide and could have resolved a long time ago at a fraction of the cost.”
Filed Under: Soup Du Jour Tagged With: Clean-Up Costs, FPL, Sen. Jose Javier Rodriguez, Turkey Point
Florida PSC Decides Nuclear Cost Recovery for FPL
The Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) today agreed that there was insufficient evidence to decide on Florida Power & Light Company’s (FPL) request to defer recovery costs for its Turkey Point Units 6 & 7 Project (TP Project).
In July 2016, the PSC approved FPL’s request to defer consideration of recovery for its nuclear plant project costs until 2017. However, FPL did not file a TP Project feasibility analysis for 2017, as required under Florida’s Nuclear Cost Recovery Clause (NCRC) rules. Therefore, the PSC determined that 2017 project costs are not eligible for recovery through the NCRC.
The Commission approved recovery of the utility’s costs for 2015 and 2016 that included $46,978,739 for the TP Project. Customers will be receiving a credit next year of $7,305,202.
Filed Under: Soup Du Jour Tagged With: FPL, Nuclear Cost Recovery
PSC Hearing on Retiring St. Johns River Power Park Scheduled for Monday
TALLAHASSEE—The Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) will conduct a hearing Monday, September 25, 2017, on Florida Power & Light Company’s (FPL) petition for approval to shut down the St. Johns River Power Park (SJRPP) at the end of this year. The plant’s retirement is expected to provide environmental benefits and save FPL customers millions of dollars.
FPL and the Office of Public Counsel, which represents consumers, filed a settlement agreement for resolving all issues in the case. The PSC may consider the settlement agreement during the hearing.
SJRPP is a coal-fired power plant jointly owned by FPL and JEA, the municipally-owned electric provider for the City of Jacksonville.
The hearing is scheduled for the following time and location:
Betty Easley Conference Center
Joseph P. Cresse Hearing Room (Room 148)
4075 Esplanade Way
Follow the PSC on Twitter, @floridapsc.
Filed Under: Soup Du Jour Tagged With: FPL, PSC, SJRPP, St. Johns River Power Park
PSC Approves FPL’s Interim Storm Recovery Charge for Hurricane Matthew
The Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) approved Florida Power & Light Company’s (FPL) request to replenish its storm reserve fund following Hurricane Matthew. While the majority of the state was spared Matthew’s worst as the storm traveled up Florida’s east coast in October 2016, FPL’s service territory suffered substantial damage.
FPL’s petition filed on December 29, 2016, is based on its 2012 Revised Stipulation and Settlement Agreement, which allows FPL to collect hurricane-related costs and maintain a storm reserve fund. This form of cost recovery is supported by the Office of Public Counsel, which represents all FPL customers. A hearing will be set in the future to consider whether the costs are reasonable and prudent.
Today’s approved interim monthly charge for FPL residential customers is $3.36 per 1,000-kilowatt hours for 12 months, beginning March 2017 and continuing through February 2018. FPL will recover approximately $318.5 million to cover costs associated with Hurricane Matthew and to replenish its storm reserve.
Filed Under: Soup Du Jour Tagged With: Florida PSC, FPL, Hurricane Matthew, Interim Storm Recovery Charge, public service commission
FPL’s Increasingly Speculative Proposed Nuclear Reactors at Turkey Point Face Further Obstacles
FPL’s Increasingly Speculative Proposed Nuclear Reactors at Turkey Point Face Further Obstacles as Toshiba-Westinghouse Faces Financial Meltdown
Utility, state and federal regulators should halt project, investigate
The unfolding financial meltdown of Japanese giant Toshiba, parent company of Westinghouse Electric Corp., the designer and builder of the two proposed AP1000 reactors at FPL’s Turkey Point facility, raises significant questions about the feasibility of FPL’s project and further underscores the likelihood that this project will never even begin construction. It was recently reported that Toshiba, via Westinghouse, is exiting the nuclear construction business.
Due to a controversial early nuclear cost recovery law passed by the Florida state legislature in 2006 that shifted all the financial risk of construction activities from utility shareholders to customers, the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) has approved collection from FPL customers of over $282 million for the increasingly speculative reactor project, units 6 and 7, at Turkey Point, near Homestead, Florida. Additionally, FPL has yet to receive a combined operating license (COL) from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), which the utility applied for in 2010.
Clean energy advocacy organization, the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, which has participated in proceedings before the PSC and NRC for many years, demands that FPL halt the project and that state and federal regulators cease permitting and related efforts required for the project until the full ramifications of Toshiba’s financial situation are evaluated. Below is SACE’s executive director, Dr. Stephen A. Smith’s statement:
“FPL’s Turkey Point nuclear expansion project was questionable from the beginning and now nearly a decade later with hundreds of millions of customers’ dollars spent, there is even less likelihood that this risky, expensive project will ever materialize. Until the fallout from Toshiba-Westinghouse’s financial meltdown can be better understood, several things must happen at the state and federal levels.
The Florida PSC needs to immediately stop FPL from collecting any further charges from ratepayers for Turkey Point 6 and 7 as there is no way any additional expenses can be deemed as a prudent investment. The PSC should also begin an investigation on the ramifications of Westinghouse being out of the nuclear construction business. Any state permitting of this project for transmission lines and other needs has to stop.
The NRC should investigate as well and report to the public, state and federal agencies as to what this means for not only FPL’s proposed reactors, but any proposed AP1000 project and the delayed, over-budget four reactors under construction at Southern Company’s Plant Vogtle in Georgia and SCANA’s V.C. Summer in South Carolina.
And last, but certainly not least, FPL has to come clean and report to their customers via the PSC on the actual economic feasibility of this project, which they failed to do last year. Not one more dollar of customers’ money should be spent on this debacle. Customers will only truly be protected if FPL admits that the Turkey Point expansion project is uneconomical and stops wasting their customers’ limited financial resources.”
About Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
Founded in 1985, the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy is a nonprofit organization that promotes responsible energy choices that work to address the impacts of global climate change and ensure clean, safe, and healthy communities throughout the Southeast. Learn more at www.cleanenergy.org.
Filed Under: Soup Du Jour Tagged With: financial meltdown, FPL, nuclear reactors, obstacles, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, Toshiba-Westinghouse, Turkey Point
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Cadillac’s 110 Years
New Luxury Book by Assouline limited to 500.
Cadillac, which celebrates its 110th birthday in August of 2012, will be the subject of a new limited edition Assouline luxury book. When it debuts later this fall, Cadillac will be the renowned publisher’s first project dedicated to a single automotive brand.
Cadillac, which celebrates its 110th birthday in August of 2012, will be the subject of a new limited edition Assouline luxury book. A limited edition with slip cover will retail for $395 and a more traditional edition will sell for $75. It is the luxury publisher's first book dedicated to a single automotive brand.
Cadillac tells the history of America’s first luxury auto maker with 150 pages of images depicting the brand’s many landmark cars and the people who drove them, making Cadillac among the world’s most-revered luxury brands.
“Cadillac is indelibly woven into culture, in America and around the world,” said Don Butler, Cadillac vice president of marketing. “Today, with Cadillac once again moving forward as a design and technology leader, we’re proud that our brand has inspired the artists at Assouline.”
Only 500 hand-numbered Cadillac luxury books will be produced, each housed in a black slipcase with metallic Cadillac plaque and retailing for $395. A more conventional hardcover version with dust jacket will also be available and retail for $75. The book will be released in time for the holiday shopping season.
Known for their editions on architecture, fashion, design and travel, Assouline has published more than 1,000 luxury books since its founding in 1994. They have branded boutiques around the world including Paris, New York, Las Vegas, Seoul, and Lima.
Cadillac’s history dates to 1902, when it was founded by engineer and entrepreneur Henry Leland. As Henry Ford’s first attempt to establish an automobile company faltered, Ford’s investors asked for Leland’s appraisal of the assets of the failed Henry Ford Company. Leland instead convinced the investors to let him make a new company with cars powered by the single-cylinder engine he invented.
Historians debate the actual “birthdate” of Cadillac. Leland’s original meeting with the Henry Ford Company’s investors occurred on August 22, 1902, often cited as the “start” of Cadillac. The actual date of the founding of the Cadillac Automobile Company, in records filed in Detroit, is August 27, exactly 110 years ago.
Using tools and equipment from his other firm, Leland and Faulconer, Leland’s first Cadillac was built on October 22, 1902. The new company began production and sales in earnest in March of 1903.
Cadillac has been a leading luxury auto brand since 1902. In recent years, Cadillac has engineered a historic renaissance led by artful engineering and advanced technology.
Cadillac logo history from 1906 to 1957. (source: GM)
Cadillac script logo.
Cadillac Official site.
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So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul’s bolster, and they got away. And no man saw it nor knew it, neither awakened; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen upon them.
So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul’s head; and they gat them away: and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from Jehovah was fallen upon them.
So David took the spear and the jug of water from beside Saul’s head, and they left, and no one saw or knew nor did anyone awaken, because they were all sound asleep, for a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen on them.
So David took the spear and the bottle of water from Saul’s head, and they got away. And no man saw or knew or wakened, for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen upon them.
So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul’s bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the Lord was fallen upon them.
So David took the spear and the water jug by Saul’s head, and they went their way. No one saw them, no one knew, and no one woke up; they all remained asleep because a deep sleep from the Lord came over them.
So David took the spear and the water jug that were by Saul’s head, and he and Abishai left. No one saw them, no one knew they were there, and no one woke up. All of them remained asleep because a deep sleep from the Lord had come over them.
So David took the spear and the water jug from Sha’ul’s head and got away. Nobody saw or knew about it, and no one awoke, because they were all asleep — a deep sleep from Adonai had fallen over them.
David took the spear and the water jar, then left the camp. None of Saul’s soldiers knew what had happened or even woke up—the Lord had made all of them fall sound asleep.
And David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's head; and they went away, and no man saw [it], and none knew [it], and none awaked, for they were all asleep; for a deep sleep from Jehovah had fallen upon them.
So David took the spear, and the cup of water which was at Saul's head, and they went away: and no man saw it, or knew it, or awaked, but they were all asleep, for a deep sleep from the Lord was fallen upon them.
So David took the spear and water jug that were near Saul’s head, and then David and Abishai left Saul’s camp. No one knew what had happened. No one saw it. No one even woke up. Saul and all of his soldiers slept because the Lord had put them into a deep sleep.
So David took the spear and the jar of water that were next to Saul’s head, and they left. No one saw them. No one knew anything. No one woke up. They were all sound asleep, because a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen on them.
So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul's head, and they went away. No man saw it or knew it, nor did any awake, for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen upon them.
ESVUK
So David took the spear and water jug that were near Saul’s head, and they left. No one saw them or knew about it or woke up, because ·the Lord had put them sound asleep [L a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen on them].
So David took the spear and the pot of water from Saul’s head, and they got them away, and no man saw it, nor marked it, neither did any awake, but they were all asleep: for the Lord had sent a dead sleep upon them.
David took the spear and the jar of water near Saul’s head, and they left. All of them were asleep. No one saw them, knew about it, or woke up. The Lord had made them fall into a deep sleep.
So David took the spear and the water jar from right beside Saul's head, and he and Abishai left. No one saw it or knew what had happened or even woke up—they were all sound asleep, because the Lord had sent a heavy sleep on them all.
HCSB
So David took the spear and water jug that were near Saul’s head. They left, and no one saw them. No one knew about it or woke up. The Lord had made them stay asleep.
So David took the spear and the jug of water at Saul’s head, and they left. No one saw, and no one knew, because no one was awake. They were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen over them.
So David took the spear and the cruse of water that were at Saul’s head, and they went, and no one saw it nor knew it neither awaked, for they were all asleep because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen upon them.
So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the Lord was fallen upon them.
AKJV
So David took the spear and the jar of water from near Saul’s head, and they went away. No one saw, no one knew, and no one awakened, for all of them were sleeping because a deep sleep of Yahweh had fallen upon them.
So David took the spear and jug of water, and they got away without anyone seeing them or even waking up, because the Lord had put them sound asleep.
David took the spear and water jug that were right beside Saul’s head, and they slipped away. Not a soul saw. Not a soul knew. No one woke up! They all slept through the whole thing. A blanket of deep sleep from God had fallen on them.
So David took the spear and the jug of water from Saul’s head and they went away. No one saw, no one knew, and no one awoke, for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen upon them.
David took the spear and the jar of water near Saul’s head, and they left. All of them were asleep. No one saw them, knew about it, or woke up. Yahweh had made them fall into a deep sleep.
So David took the spear and the water jug from their place at Saul’s head, and they withdrew without anyone seeing or knowing or awakening. All remained asleep, because a deep slumber from the Lord had fallen upon them.
So David took the spear and the jug of water that were at Saul’s head, and they left; and no one saw or knew about it, nor did anyone awaken, for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen on them.
NASB1995
So David took the spear and the jug of water from beside Saul’s head, and they went away, but no one saw or knew it, nor did any awake, for they were all asleep, because a sound sleep from the Lord had fallen on them.
NCV
So David took the spear and water jug that were near Saul’s head, and they left. No one saw them or knew about it or woke up, because the Lord had put them sound asleep.
So David took the spear and the jug of water by Saul’s head, and they got out of there. No one saw them or was aware of their presence or woke up. All of them were asleep, for the Lord had caused a deep sleep to fall on them.
So David took the spear and water jug that were near Saul’s head. Then he and Abishai left. No one saw them. No one knew about what they had done. In fact, no one even woke up. Everyone was sleeping. That’s because the Lord had put them into a deep sleep.
So David took the spear and water jug near Saul’s head, and they left. No one saw or knew about it, nor did anyone wake up. They were all sleeping, because the Lord had put them into a deep sleep.
NIVUK
So David took the spear and the jug of water by Saul’s head, and they got away; and no man saw or knew it or awoke. For they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen on them.
NLV
So David took the spear and the bottle of water from beside Saul’s head, and they went away. But no one saw it, or knew it, and no one woke, for they were all sleeping. A deep sleep from the Lord had come upon them.
So David took the spear and jug of water that were near Saul’s head. Then he and Abishai got away without anyone seeing them or even waking up, because the Lord had put Saul’s men into a deep sleep.
So David took the spear that was at Saul’s head and the water jar, and they went away. No one saw it, or knew it, nor did anyone awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen upon them.
NRSVA
So David took the spear that was at Saul’s head and the water-jar, and they went away. No one saw it, or knew it, nor did anyone awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen upon them.
NRSVACE
NRSVCE
OJB
So Dovid took the khanit and the flask of mayim from near Sha’ul’s head; and they got them away, and no one saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked; for they were all asleep; because a tardamat Hashem was fallen upon them.
So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul’s head; and they went away. No man saw it, or knew it, nor did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen upon them.
So David took the spear and the water jar from beside Saul’s head. They got away—and no one saw it, or knew it, or woke up—for all were asleep, for a deep sleep from Adonai had fallen upon them.
So David took the spear and the water jug from right beside Saul’s head and crept back through the camp. No one saw or knew they were there. No one woke up because the Eternal had caused the entire camp to fall into a deep sleep.
So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul’s head; and they went away. No man saw it, or knew it, nor did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from Yahweh had fallen on them.
Then David took the spear, and the cup of water, that was at the head of Saul, and they went forth, and no man was that saw, and understood, and waked, but all men slept (and there was no one who saw it, or knew it, or even awoke, but all the men slept); for the sleep of the Lord had fallen [up]on them.
And David taketh the spear, and the cruse of water at the pillow of Saul, and they go away, and there is none seeing, and there is none knowing, and there is none awaking, for all of them are sleeping, for a deep sleep [from] Jehovah hath fallen upon them.
1 Samuel 26:111 Samuel 26:13
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The virtues of impeachment.
Among the items from his ABC interview last night that will launch a few op-ed columns is James Comey’s statement that Trump shouldn’t be impeached, but voted out. I think the fact that this is a debatable question is a symptom of how broken our politics and governance currently are.
On a basic level, Comey’s position (shared by many of the DC elite, including several politicians whose other positions I otherwise respect) is flat-out wrong. If the president has committed gross infractions against the law they should be impeached and, if found guilty, removed from office. Even the strategic question of whether or not the Vice President or any other person in the line of succession might be worse doesn’t change the reality of that.
But there is a practical, political consideration that I’m sure Comey is trying to intimate here — that “impeachment” has become less a penalty based on law and more a penalty based on partisanship. Part of that is because the process of impeachment IS partisan at its foundations. The Constitution establishes two specific crimes — treason and bribery — and one general category of “high crimes and misdemeanors” as a threshold under which the House should be compelled to impeach. But Congress is a creature made of lawyers, and lawyers are compelled to examine and argue about the rules before they agree to follow them. When a party holds both the executive office and the majority in the House, the threshold is not a question of whether the president may have acted illegally. The threshold is instead a question of whether the president and his supporters in Congress can keep their seats despite the president having acted illegally.
People were calling for Obama’s impeachment almost immediately after he took office because they’ve internalized that impeachment is some kind of quick and dirty option to get rid of the leadership you don’t want — a sound backup plan for when the vote doesn’t go your way. Regardless of what impeachment should be, this is what impeachment has become. I recognize that the hesitation to impeach comes from the idea that the higher calling of democracy is to use fair elections as a means of transferring power.
But higher callings can only be answered if the democracy itself is on solid footing, and right now American ideals of democracy have been shredded, purchased, and repackaged by power-hungry malcontents. If we were living in a functioning nation, then impeachment would feel drastic, a last-resort option to be undertaken when all other options had been exhausted. But our elections are neither fair nor equitable; its systems no longer reflective of the country that America became two-odd centuries later. Creating barriers against voting is a priority agenda item of the party in power, which marks them as bad-faith actors unworthy of participating in democracy at all.
As such, impeachment is drastic but it is also necessary.
This entry was posted on April 16, 2018 by bilaldardai in Action Items, Essay, Politics, Society.
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Newsprint: Where the Buffalo and Batman Roam
Practical meets whimsical in a real-life diorama on a window ledge in the newsroom of the Rawlins (Wyoming) Daily Times. Take a look inside as we feature another picture from Peter Crabtree's portfolio "Newsprint."
by Shawn Poynter January 31, 2017 January 31, 2017
As of yesterday, the top story on the Rawlins (Wyoming) Daily Times’ website was an obituary for a young man who was known for his “unforgettable laughter, loving manner, contagious smile, and willingness to always help others.” The fact that an obit lead the most read section will surprise no one who’s spent time in a small community. A community newspaper is not just a source of local news, it’s also a place where the community can honor the achievements, and lives, of its people. You’re just as likely to see a photo of a rosarian holding her blue-ribbon-winning bud or an account of a columnists’ granddaughter’s travels as a memorial. It depends on the luck of that week.
It’s these types of stories, hyper-local, personal, and unique, that make small town newspapers vital to the communities they serve. Photographer Peter Crabtree has captured those traits well in “Newsprint,” his portfolio of small town newsrooms from across the country. We’ve been running photos from this project for a couple weeks. This is the latest installment. Here’s what drew Peter to the picture we’re featuring this week:
I was attracted by the window grid and the symmetry of the owls and dictionaries, which were then disturbed by the placement of the scanner — you’ll find one in every newsroom — and the presence of the bison and action figure. The latter seemed like a bit of boyish, imaginative whimsy in a “just the facts” environment.
It’s easy to forget that journalists are people. Especially now, with the president of the United States all but declaring war on the media. Like seeing your teacher in the grocery store, it’s weird thinking about your local, neighborhood Op-Ed columnist going to church or eating at a restaurant. But they usually live in the tiny communities they report on. And they’re individuals, of course. That’s part of the charm of these pictures, seeing each newsroom or building façade, all similar but unique.
Rawlins is a small, but not tiny, town in Carbon County. 9,200-ish people in town, 15,500 in the county as of the 2010 census. The paper serves 3,600 according to the newspaper data service Cision.
Rawlins’ location in Carbon County. Carbon County’s location in Wyoming. Via Wikipedia
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Transcript: TE Evan Engram
TE Evan Engram
Q: What was the feeling like when the team walked off the field in Philadelphia three weeks ago? How has the confidence maybe, or how has the team changed since then?
A: The feeling walking off after that game, that was a real tough one. Real disappointing just coming up that short and just how that game ended wasn’t a really good feeling. But I have a lot of confidence in the way we’ve bounced back since then, the way we’ve responded as a team, not just in the games but even just in practice. The preparation has been really good. I really have a lot of confidence in the way we’ve been preparing, the way we’ve responded since that game.
Q: That was the game, obviously, that you had the big drop. You came and you talked to us, you owned it, you put out publicly that you have to do better. Do you think you showed anything to your, believe it or not you’re one of the older guys now around here, do you think you showed anything to your younger teammates with the accountability you took not hiding after that?
A: That will obviously be what they see and what they find in that situation and how I responded. For me, like I said, I’m not a guy that will make excuses. I never point the finger at anybody else in that moment. That was a play I should have made. But I think a lot of young guys definitely see the way guys respond in adversity. For me, just to kind of own that and then respond in the right way with the work going forward, that was important to me.
Q: I can remember Odell (Beckham) when he was here saying ‘it’s enough with losing to the Eagles. We have to beat the Eagles.’ That was like two or three years ago and you still haven’t beaten the Eagles since. Is it time for you guys to beat the Eagles? Is it just time at this point? I don’t think you’ve ever beaten the Eagles. They’ve beaten you 12 out of 13 times. Are you guys getting frustrated with that, the guys that have been here a long time, with the way they’ve kind of bullied you guys?
A: To be real, obviously, it’s a division rival. We need to win. We’ve been on the losing end a lot of times recently. We have an opportunity to change that this Sunday. That’s what we’re really focused on. We’re definitely really motivated to be on the winning end this time.
Q: Obviously, because of there being no offseason, the weird training camp and whatnot, there was a little longer acclimation period between the players and the coaches, everybody getting to know each other. Do you feel at this point that everybody is kind of now familiar enough with each other to where on offense at least, you can take things to the next level? You’re not still trying to figure out who can do what?
A: Yeah, definitely. This whole year has been an adjustment. We’ve had to kind of adjust on the fly. But I think just throughout the season and throughout the first half of this year, we’ve definitely learned a lot and have grown a lot. We’ve seen a lot of improvement the past couple of weeks. I think we’ve just been really focused on building and finding things to improve on each week. Just trying to become a more consistent team, and obviously, spreading the ball around and allowing guys to use their talents to make plays.
Q: For you, dealing with the highs and lows, since you’ve gotten here that’s kind of been your story behind the story. You’ve learned how to go with the highs, go with the lows. For you, why are you able to do that? Or are you able to do that? From play to play, you mentioned the drop in the Eagles game, you come back, you catch a touchdown against Washington. Is there something that you’ve developed through the years you think mentally, emotionally, that allows you to be able to move past it? Or does it hang with you?
A: I think the biggest thing that I’ve learned is learning how to stay in the exact moment. There have been a lot of times where I’ve allowed a bad play to linger, and mentally it’ll mess me up. It won’t allow me to prepare for the next play and make the next play. I think my maturity and I’ve just kind of grown in this league and through the adversity and the lessons learned, I’ve learned to just kind of stay in the moment. When the mistakes do happen and the bad plays do happen, definitely you need to flush them. But when the time is right, you learn from them and you work on the things that need to be improved on that could have prevented that. The biggest thing for me is just stay in the moment, staying in that play or that exact second, where we are in the game or in the week in practice, whatever, and just kind of continue to work and be prepared for that next opportunity that I will get.
Q: When you talk about looking at what went wrong and then trying to improve it, in regards to the drops, when you look at them, is there something you see, is there something specific you’re trying to work on that you know that that’s leading to them? How do you sort of make sense of them this year?
A: Yeah, it’s the small things. Maybe not looking the ball all the way into the tuck, or keeping your shoulders square while running a go route, or shooting your hands together, don’t shoot your hands too early and continue to run through the ball. Just small, technical things that are important techniques in receiving the ball and being a receiver. Just really fundamentals. Just being able to focus on those and sharpen those things when there’s time to do that.
Q: You haven’t found a common thread though between them? Each time is kind of a different thing from what you’ve seen?
A: Yeah.
Engram..
Goin Deep : 11/12/2020 4:18 pm : link
Well four years in and I guess that I'm still inconsistent as hell.
I counted
jnoble : 11/12/2020 6:30 pm : link
Five "definitely"s in that interview which is Engram's favorite word.
Jones has his "Certainly" and Eli had his "You know" verbal crutches.
Coughlin was also good for at least one or two "opportunities" or "outstanding"s
Once I picked up on those I can't not notice them in every interview lol
RE: I counted
OdellBeckhamJr : 11/12/2020 7:32 pm : link
In comment 15043663 jnoble said:
yes and I wish everyone would stop mentioning this because I see it every time now lol
My ? to Engram:
SFGFNCGiantsFan : 11/12/2020 7:38 pm : link
How fast can I drive you out of town & off this team?
RE: RE: I counted
In comment 15043705 OdellBeckhamJr said:
Sorry lol
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Home Costa Rica Legal TopicsCriminal Law The United States and Costa Rica Extradition Treaty
The United States and Costa Rica Extradition Treaty
The United States and Costa Rica entered into an Extradition treaty in 1982 which was approved by the Costa Rican legislature in 1991. The following is the extradition treaty between the United States and Costa Rica.
The Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Costa Rica
Desiring to provide for more effective cooperation between the two States in the repression of crime; and Desiring to conclude a new Treaty for the reciprocal extradition of fugitives from justice,Have agreed as follows:
ARTICLE 1 Obligation to Extradite The Contracting Parties agree to extradite to each other, subject to the provisions in this Treaty, persons found in the territory of one of the Contracting Parties who have been charged with, are being tried for, or have been found guilty of an extraditable offense in the Requesting State .
ARTICLE 2 Extraditable Offenses(1) An offense shall be an extraditable offense if it may be punished under the laws of both Contracting Parties by deprivation of liberty for a maximum period of more than one year or by any greater punishment.(2) An offense shall also be extraditable if it consists of an attempt to commit or participation in the commission of any offense described in paragraph (1) of this Article. Extradition shall also be granted for illicit association, as provided by the laws of Costa Rica , to commit any offense described in paragraph (1) of this Article, and for conspiring as provided by the laws of the United States of America , to commit any such offense.(3) For the purpose of this Article, an offense shall be an extraditable offense:(a) Whether or not the laws of the Contracting Parties place the offense within the same category of offenses or denominate the offense by the same terminology; or(b) Whether or not the offense is one for which United States federal law requires, for the purpose of establishing jurisdiction in a United States federal court, proof of interstate transportation, or use of, or effect on, the mails or other facilities affecting interstate or foreign commerce.(4) When extradition has been granted for an extraditable offense, it may also be granted for any other offense specified in the request for extradition, even if the other offense may be punished by less than one year’s deprivation of liberty in either State, provided that all other requirements for extradition are met. The Requesting State shall submit the documentation required by Article 9 for each offense for which extradition is requested pursuant to this paragraph.
ARTICLE 3 Jurisdiction Extradition shall be granted for an extraditable offense regardless of where the act or acts constituting the offense were committed.
ARTICLE 4 Political and Military Offenses(1) Extradition shall not be granted when the offense for which extradition is requested is a political offense or if the Requested State determines that extradition has been requested for the principal purpose of prosecuting or punishing a person for an offense of a political character. Costa Rica shall not grant extradition for an offense connected with a political offense as long as its Constitution prohibits extradition for such an offense.(2) For the purposes of this Treaty, the following offenses shall not be considered to be included in paragraph (1) of this Article:(a) The murder or other willful crime against the life or physical integrity of a Head of State or Head of Government or of his family, including attempts to commit such an offense.(b) An offense with respect to which the Contracting Parties have the obligation to prosecute or to grant extradition by reason of a multilateral international agreement.(3) Extradition shall not be granted when the offense for which extradition is requested is an offense of a purely military nature.
ARTICLE 5 Capital Punishment. When the offense for which extradition is requested is punishable by death under the laws of the Requesting State and the laws of the Requested State do not permit such punishment for that offense, extradition may be refused, unless, before extradition is granted, the Requesting State furnishes such assurances as the Requested State considers sufficient, that the death penalty shall not be imposed, or, if imposed, shall not be executed.
ARTICLE 6 Prior Jeopardy for the Same Offense(1) Extradition shall not be granted when the person sought is being tried; has been convicted, acquitted, or pardoned; or has served the sentence imposed by the Requested State for the same offense arising out of the same acts for which extradition is requested.(2) Extradition may be granted, however, even if the competent authorities of the Requested State have decided to refrain from prosecuting the person sought for the acts for which extradition is requested or to discontinue any criminal proceedings which have been initiated against the person sought.
ARTICLE 7 Statute of Limitations. Extradition shall not be granted when the prosecution or the enforcement of the penalty for the offense for which extradition has been sought has become barred by lapse of time pursuant to the laws of the Requesting State
.ARTICLE 8 Extradition of Nationals (1) Neither of the Contracting Parties shall be bound to surrender its nationals. The Requested State , however, shall have the power to grant the extradition of its nationals if, in its discretion, this is deemed proper to do and provided the constitution of the Requested State does not so preclude. In no event may either Contracting Party refuse to extradite one of its nationals on the basis of nationality after the person’s nationality has been cancelled in accordance with the law of the Requested State .(2) The Requested State shall undertake all available legal measures to suspend proceedings for the naturalization of the person sought until a decision is made on the request for extradition and, if that request is granted, until that person is surrendered.(3) If the Requested State refuses extradition on the basis of nationality, it shall, at the request of the Requesting State , submit the case to its competent authorities for prosecution. If the Requested State requires additional documents or evidence, such documents or evidence shall be submitted without charge to that State. The Requesting State shall be informed of the result of its request.
ARTICLE 9 Extradition Procedures and Required Documents(1) The request for extradition shall be made by a diplomatic agent of the Requesting State or, if none is present, by a consular officer of that State.(2) The request for extradition shall contain:(a) Information concerning the identity of the person sought and the location where the person may be found, if known; and(b) A brief statement of the facts of the case.(3) The request for extradition shall be accompanied by documents which contain:(a) A detailed explanation of the pertinent facts of the case;(b) Evidence that the person sought is the person charged or convicted;(c) The text and an explanation of the law describing the offenses and the penalties therefor; and(d) The text and an explanation of the law setting forth the statute of limitations applicable to the trial and punishment therefor.(4) When the request for extradition relates to a person who has not yet been convicted, it shall be accompanied by:(a) A copy of the charging document, or an equivalent document issued by a judge or judicial authority; and(b) Such evidence, as in accordance with the laws of the Requested State , would be necessary to justify the apprehension and commitment for trial of the person sought if the offense had been committed there.(5) When the request for extradition relates to a convicted person, it shall be accompanied by a copy of the judgment of conviction or a statement by a competent judicial authority of the Requesting State that the person has been convicted.(6) All documents transmitted by the Requesting State shall be translated, in either the Requesting or the Requested State , into the language of the Requested State .
ARTICLE 10 Additional Documentation (1) If the Requested State considers that the documents furnished in support of the request for the extradition of a person sought are not sufficient to fulfill the requirements of this Treaty, that State shall request the submission of necessary additional documents. The Requested State may set a time limit for the submission of such documents, and may grant a reasonable extension of the time limit upon application of the Requesting State setting forth reasons there for.(2) If the person sought is in custody and the additional documents submitted are not sufficient, or if such documents are not received within the period specified by the Requested State , that person may be discharged from custody. Such discharge shall not prejudice the re-arrest and the extradition of the person if the additional documents are subsequently received.
ARTICLE 11 Provisional Detention (1) In case of urgency, either Contracting Party may request the provisional detention of any charged or convicted person. Application for provisional detention shall be made either through the diplomatic channel or directly between the Department of Justice of the United States of America and the Ministerio de Justicia of the Republic of Costa Rica .(2) The application shall contain information identifying the person sought; the location of that person, if known; a brief statement of the facts of the case; a statement of the existence of a warrant of arrest or an order of detention issued by a judicial authority, or a judgment of conviction against that person; and a statement that a request for extradition of the person will follow.(3) On receipt of such an application, the Requested State shall take the appropriate steps to secure the detention of the person sought. The Requesting State shall be promptly notified of the results of its application.(4) Provisional detention shall be terminated if, within a period of 60 days after the apprehension of the person sought, the Requested State has not received the request for extradition and the supporting documents required by Article 9. (5) The termination of provisional detention pursuant to paragraph (4) of this Article shall not prejudice the extradition of the person sought if the extradition request and the documents mentioned in Article 9 are delivered later.
ARTICLE 12 Detention and ReleaseA person detained pursuant to the Treaty shall not be released until the extradition request has been finally decided, unless such release is required under the extradition law of the Requested State or unless this Treaty provides for such release.
ARTICLE 13 Decision and Surrender (1) The Requested State shall promptly communicate through the diplomatic channel to the Requesting State its decision on the request for extradition.(2) The Requested State shall provide the reasons for any partial or complete rejection of the request for extradition.(3) If extradition has been granted, surrender of the person shall take place within such time as may be prescribed by the law of the Requested State . The Contracting Parties shall agree on the time and place of the surrender of the person sought. If, however, that person has not left the territory of the Requested State within the prescribed time, that person may be set at liberty
ARTICLE 14 Deferred Surrender or Temporary Surrender(1) If the extradition request is granted in the case of a person who is being prosecuted or is serving a sentence in the territory of the Requested State for a different offense, the Requested State may defer the surrender of the person sought until the conclusion of the proceedings against that person or the full execution of the sentence that may be, or may have been, imposed.(2) If the extradition request is granted in the case of a person who is serving a sentence in the territory of the Requested State for a different offense, the Requested State may temporarily surrender the person sought to the Requesting State for the purpose of prosecution. The person so surrendered shall be kept in custody while in the Requesting State and shall be returned to the Requested State after the conclusion of the proceedings against that person in accordance with conditions to be determined by mutual agreement of the Contracting Parties.
ARTICLE 15 Requests by Several States(1) The Requested State , upon receiving requests from the other Contracting Party and from one or more other States for the extradition of the same person, either for the same offense or for different offenses, shall, in its discretion, determine to which State it will surrender that person. In making its decision, it may consider relevant factors including:(a) The State in which the offense was committed;(b) The gravity of the offenses if the States are seeking the person for different offenses;(c) The possibility of re-extradition between the Requesting States; and(d) The order in which the requests were received from the Requesting States.(2) Preference shall always be given to an extradition request made pursuant to an extradition treaty.
ARTICLE 16 Rule of Speciality(1) A person extradited under this Treaty may be detained, tried, or punished in the Requesting State only for:(a) The offense for which extradition has been granted;(b) A lesser included offense;(c) An offense committed after the extradition; or(d) Any offense for which the Requested State consents to the person’s detention, trial, or punishment. For purposes of this paragraph, the Requested State may require the submission of the documents mentioned in Article 9.(2) A person extradited under this Treaty may not be extradited to a third State unless the Requested State consents.(3) Nothing in paragraphs (1) and (2) of this Article shall prevent the detention, trial, or punishment of an extradited person in accordance with the laws of the Requesting State or the extradition of that person to a third State, is: (a) The person has left the territory of the Requesting State after extradition and has voluntarily returned to it; or(b) The person has not left the territory of the Requesting State within 30 days from the day on which that person was free to leave
ARTICLE 17 Simplified Extradition If the person sought agrees in writing to removal to the Requesting State after personally being advised by a competent judicial authority that the person sought has the right to a formal extradition proceeding and that the surrender shall not be subject to Article 16, the Requested State may surrender that person without such a proceeding.
ARTICLE 18 Surrender of Articles, Instruments, Objects, and Documents(1) All articles, instruments, objects of value, documents, and other evidence relating to the offense may be seized and, upon granting of extradition, surrendered to the Requesting State . The property mentioned in this Article may be surrendered even when extradition cannot be granted or effected due to the death, disappearance, or escape of the person sought. The rights of third parties in such property shall be duly respected.(2) The Requested State may condition the surrender of the property upon satisfactory assurances from the Requesting State that the property will be returned to the Requested State as soon as practicable, and may defer its surrender if it is needed as evidence in the Requested State .
ARTICLE 19 Transit (1) Either Contracting Party may authorize transit through its territory of a person surrendered to the other Party by a third State. The Contracting Party requesting transit shall provide the transit State, through diplomatic channels, with a request for transit which shall contain a description of the person being transmitted and a brief statement of the facts of the case.(2) No such authorization is required where air transportation is used and no landing is scheduled in the territory of the other Contracting Party. If an unscheduled landing occurs within the territory of that Party, it shall detain the person for a period not exceeding 96 hours while awaiting the request for transit pursuant to paragraph (1) of this Article.
ARTICLE 20 Representation (1) The Department of Justice of the United States of America shall advise, assist, and represent, or provide for the representation of, the Republic of Costa Rica in any proceedings in the United States arising out of a request for extradition made by Costa Rica .(2) The Office of the Attorney General of the Republic of Costa Rica shall advise, assist, and represent, or provide for the representation of, the United States of America in any proceedings in Costa Rica arising out of a request for extradition made by the United States .(3) The representation functions set forth in paragraphs (1) and (2) of this Article may be assumed by any successor agency designated by the laws of the affected State.
ARTICLE 21 Expenses(1) The Requesting State shall pay expenses related to the translation of documents and the transportation of the person sought from the place of the extradition proceeding to the Requesting State . The Requested State shall pay all other expenses related to the extradition request and proceedings.(2) The Requested State shall make no pecuniary claim against the Requesting State arising out of the arrest, detention, examination, and surrender of persons sought under the terms of this Treaty.
ARTICLE 22 Scope of Application The procedures established by this Treaty shall apply to offenses committed before as well as after the date this Treaty enters into force.A
ARTICLE 23 Ratification and Entry into Force (1) This Treaty shall be subject to ratification; the instruments of ratification shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible.(2) This Treaty shall enter into force immediately upon the exchange of the instruments of ratification.(3) Upon the entry into force of this Treaty, the Treaty between the United States of America and the Republic of Costa Rica , signed at San Jose , November 10, 1922, shall cease to have effect.
ARTICLE 24 Denunciation Either Contracting Party may denounce this Treaty at any time by giving written notice to the other Party, and the denunciation shall be effective six months after the date of receipt of such notice.
DONE at San Jose , in duplicate, in the English and Spanish languages, both texts being equally authentic, this fourth day of December, 1982.
FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA :President of the United States of America FOR THE REPUBLIC OF COSTA RICA :President of the Republic of Costa Rica No. 202
San Jose December 16, 1982. His Excellency Fernando Volio Jimenez,Ministry of Foreign Relations, Republic of Costa Rica Excellency:
I have the honor to refer to the Extradition Treaty between the United States of America and the Republic of Costa Rica signed on December 4, 1982, and in particular to Articles 2 and 16 thereof.Article 2 of the Treaty broadly defines offenses which are extraditable in order to insure that all felonies punishable under the laws of both Contracting Parties are extraditable. During the negotiations, questions arose as to whether offenses under certain complex United States statutes fall within the definition of extraditable offenses. It is understood that, notwithstanding any differences in the categorization of the offenses under the laws of the Contracting Parties and the terminology used to define those offenses, it is the intent of both Parties that such offenses be covered as long as there is an analogous offense under the laws of each Party. For example, it is understood that an offense under Section 848, Title 21, United States Code, which proscribes engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise with five or more other persons to commit a series of serious offenses under the narcotics control laws of the United States, will be considered by the Government of Costa Rica to be analogous to the offenses proscribed by Article 272 or Article 372 of the Penal Code of Costa Rica, and, therefore, to be an extraditable offense under the Treaty. As another example, it is understood that an offense under Section 1962(c), Title 18, United States Code, which prohibits participating in conducting the affairs of an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity, will be considered by the Government of Costa Rica to be analogous to the offense of illicit association under Article 272 of its law and, therefore, to be an extraditable offense.It is also understood that fiscal offenses which may be punished by a maximum period of deprivation of liberty in excess of one year in both States are extraditable offenses under the Treaty.Article 16 of the Treaty sets forth the rule of speciality applicable to extradited persons. Paragraph (1)(b) of that Article provides that a person who has been extradited under the Treaty may be detained, tried, or punished in the Requesting State not only for the offense for which that person was extradited, but also for an offense of a lesser degree of culpability which is based on the same facts as the offense for which extradition was granted. For example, this paragraph would permit the Requesting State to try a person for involuntary manslaughter after the person had been extradited for murder, without first obtaining the consent of the Requested State . While the English and Spanish texts use different terminology in paragraph (1) (b) of Article 16, it is understood that the terminology used has the same effect in the legal systems of the United States and Costa Rica .I would appreciate a note from your Excellency confirming that the understandings described above are also the understandings of the Government of Costa Rica.Accept, Excellency, the renewed assurances of my highest and most distinguished consideration./s/ Francis J. McNeil.Department of State,Division of Language Services,
San Jose , December 16, 1982.(TRANSLATION)LS No. 108430, JRP/ADS, Spanish.No. 577-82/D.G.M.His Excellency Francis J. McNeil,Ambassador, Embassy of the United States of America , San Jose.
Mr. Ambassador: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of Your Excellency’s note No. 202 of this date, which reads as follows:[The Spanish translation of note No. 202 agrees in all substantive respects with the original English text.]I am happy to inform Your Excellency that the Government of Costa Rica fully agrees with the above note, whose text is absolutely correct.I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurances of my distinguished consideration.Fernando Volio Jimenez,Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship,Republic of Costa Rica .Resolution of consent to notification by the SenateResolution of RatificationResolved, (two-thirds of the Senators present concurring therein). That the Senate advise and consent to the ratification of the Treaty of Extradition Between the United States of America and the Republic of Costa Rica signed at San Jose on December 4, 1982 together with a related exchange of notes signed on December 16, 1982
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Johnny Boychuk Retires Because of Eye Injury
November 25, 2020 Lydia Murray 0 Comments 2011 Stanley Cup, Boston Bruins, Colorado Avalanche, Hockey, Johnny Boychuk, New York Islanders, NHL, Providence Bruins
#Isles News: After numerous and extensive medical exams, New York Islanders defenseman Johnny Boychuk’s career has come to an end, due to an eye injury suffered during the 2019-20 regular season.https://t.co/HqUt4e0Se0
— New York Islanders (@NYIslanders) November 25, 2020
Earlier today, New York Islanders’ defenseman Johnny Boychuk announced that he was retiring from professional hockey due to an eye injury suffered during their March 3rd game against the Montreal Canadiens. He was kicked in the eye by the Canadiens’ Arturri Lehkonen in a freak accident. The wound required more than 90 stitches to close in addition to plastic surgery. This was the second injury to that eye. While no immediate vision problems were apparent, when Boychuk returned to the team during the playoffs, he got blindsided by a hit from Florida Panthers’ defenseman Mike Matheson that left him concussed. It was a dirty hit no matter what, but Boychuk said today that not long after the hit, he realized he should’ve seen it coming at least a little bit, and that’s when he started to realize there were problems.
As the bubble stretched on and the Islanders returned home, those vision issues became more apparent. So, he underwent tests to see the extent of it. Those tests showed that he had severely limited peripheral vision and optical nerve damage. That all led to today’s announcement. According to an emotional Boychuk during a Zoom media availability today, he didn’t even think “it was a decision. When you play with it and realize there’s something wrong, and then you go and get tests, it really wasn’t a decision; it was a life choice, I guess. If I was to go and play again and not able to see somebody coming and get hit, I could be a lot worse than what I was.”
Boychuk’s Career
His Career Began With the Avalanche Organization
Johnny Boychuk was drafted in the second round, 61st overall by the Colorado Avalanche in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft. He’d play just four games for the Colorado Avalanche in his career. All of them were during the 2007-08 season, and he had zero goals or assists through them. He also played 294 AHL games over the course of four seasons with the Avalanche organization. Those games were split between four different teams, which is a little weird. But anyway, during those games, he tallied 27 goals and 74 assists for a total of 101 points. Boychuk was then traded to the Boston Bruins on June 24th, 2008 for Matt Hendricks.
Bruins Days
Boychuk spent all but one game of his first season with the Bruins down in Providence. In that one game, he put up zero points. However, the 78 games spent down in Providence that year were his most productive since entering the league, as he produced 20 goals and 46 assists for a total of 66 points. The following season, after paying his dues in the minors for five years, Boychuk made the permanent jump to the NHL at the age of 25. He’d go on to win the Cup with the Bruins in 2011, and make it back to the Cup Final in 2013, when they ultimately fell short to the Chicago Blackhawks. All told, he spent six seasons with the Bruins organization, over which he played in 317 games and tallied 19 goals and 56 assists for a total of 75 points.
He was then traded to the New York Islanders on October 4th, 2014 for two seconds round picks. One of them ws in the 2015 draft, and it was originally Philadelphia’s and was used to select Brandon Carlo. The other was in the 2016 draft, and it was used to select Ryan Lindgren (who has since been traded to the New York Rangers with Ryan Spooner, Matt Belesky, and the Bruins’ 2018 first-round pick and 2019 seventh-round pick in exchange for Rick Nash).
Boychuk spent his last six seasons in the NHL with the Islanders. Over that time, he appeared in 404 games, over which he put up 35 goals and 96 assists for a total of 131 points. He was also an alternate captain for the team in his last two seasons. All told, Boychuk appeared in 725 career NHL games between three teams over the course of 13 seasons, over which he produced 54 goals and 152 assists for a total of 206 points.
Boychuk Was An Even Better Teammate Than He Was a Player
While Boychuk was a good player, he was an even better person off the ice. He was known as a warrior for his play on the ice, but he was one of the nicest guys in the game off of it. He was a consummate professional, active in the community, and an all-around great guy that teams love to have. I’ve never seen anyone say a bad thing about Boychuk. He truly is an amazing person. The love his teammates had for him was extremely evident today, as messages were pouring in from them on social media congratulating him on a great career and thanking him for everything he did for them. Here are just a few of those tweets.
Everyone knows JB as the warrior that he is. But he’s truly more than that. JB gave this to me after scoring my first NHL goal. I will never forget a gesture like that from a guy I have always looked up to. Will miss you Beezy and congrats on an incredible career! @joboych pic.twitter.com/YRcyqAGafP
— Devon Toews (@DevonToews6) November 25, 2020
Anyone who knows JB knows he is one of a kind in every way. He is a selfless teammate, who never backed down, shot every rimmed puck, has a heart of gold, and touch of moderns top customer. But above all he is always there for you.I’m lucky you call you my friend, Love you Beezy pic.twitter.com/qhS8Kkkm5g
— Anders Lee (@leeberr09) November 25, 2020
One of the best teammates I’ve ever had. Warrior on the Ice, and a teddy bear off of it. The game of hockey will miss you @joboych! Love you my brother. ❤️ #JohnnyRocket🚀 https://t.co/nOHzIAYjLZ
— Matt Martin (@mattymarts17) November 25, 2020
Congrats to my brother from another mother on a successful career. Sucks it had to end this way but was pleasure being your teammate and best friend for 5 year in boston. Love you bro #2011champs @joboych pic.twitter.com/vimiO8yYln
— Milan Lucic (@27MilanLucic) November 25, 2020
A beauty on and off the ice and someone I looked up to! Congrats on a amazing career JB, you will be missed! @joboych https://t.co/ESgNmuegEW
— Noah Dobson (@_ND53) November 25, 2020
Boychuk Was Also a Fan Favorite
This sequence showcases Johnny Boychuk perfectly: hard, clean hits and the Johnny Rocket.
🎥: @dafoomie pic.twitter.com/oM7DJ2C6YA
— Evan Marinofsky (@emarinofsky) November 25, 2020
Boychuk was not only beloved by teammates but fans too. He played an old-school, hard-nosed (but clean) style of hockey, which Bruins fans absolutely adore. He also had an absolute cannon of a shot, earning the nickname “Johnny Rocket” because of it (and his shots were also called that sometimes). Trading Boychuk left a hole in the Bruins locker room and in the hearts of fans. It needed to be done due to salary cap issues, but it hurt badly because everybody loved him so much.
The 2011 Bruins team is regarded as one of the most special Bruins teams in recent memory because of their talent and obvious chemistry. Boychuk was a huge part of that, and his contributions will never be forgotten by Bruins fans. Also, while his play started to decline once he got to the Islanders due to age and injuries, he still managed to be an integral member of the team because of his dedication to the game, as well as his off-ice contributions.
Congratulations and Best of Luck in the Future, Johnny!
It’s extremely sad that this is the way Boychuk’s career is ending. It’s sad anytime a player is forced to retire due to injury and not on their own terms is sad. But, as a Bruins fan, this one hits a little harder than most. But, I think I speak for most people when I say I’m glad he’s doing what’s best for him, and I wish him all the best in the future with his health and life in general! From all of us here at Couch Guy Sports, congrats on an amazing career Johnny and enjoy retirement!
-Lydia Murray (@lydia_murray12)
Featured image courtesy of hitmenhockey.com.
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itCG-search continues for F-16 pilot, fuel tanks jettisoned, three rescued, migrant smuggler convicted
By LT Connie Braesch in Security on October 17, 2009 May 20, 2019
The Coast Guard is continuing to search the waters off the coast of North Carolina for the missing U.S. Air Force Captain Nicholas Giglio whose F-16 aircraft crashed Thursday evening. Making the search more difficult is the fact that none of the three locator beacons attached to the seat, the plane or the pilot were activated. The beacons would provide searchers a signal to hone in on.
Story here
Coast Guard crews located one of the two fuel tanks dropped into Lake Champlain from a Vermont Air National Guard F-16 yesterday morning. The pilot experienced thrust and power irregularities during a training mission and, as a safety measure, burned off all but about 70 gallons of jet fuel and then jettisoned the two tanks in a pre-designated area. The pilot was able to land safely.
A Coast Guard helicopter hoisted three people off a boat in Lake Erie in the pre-dawn hours yesterday. The boat reportedly ran aground and began taking on water just about a mile from shore.
A man was convicted Thursday for his involvement in the attempted smuggling of 26 Cuban migrants into the U.S. that resulted in the death of a six-year-old boy. The man was not onboard the boat when it was interdicted by the Coast Guard south of Key West four years ago, but during an investigation by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement the man was arrested and subsequently convicted.
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UCD Champions Scholarship from Compass
Compass Informatics has donated to the University College Dublin (UCD) Champions Fund to provide a one year scholarship and bursary and has done so to remember Dr. Trutz Haase, a friend of our team and company. Trutz, with his friend and colleague Dr. Jonathan Pratschke, designed and developed the HP Deprivation Index, which Compass then presented publicly for Pobal on the maps.pobal.ie website. Trutz’s work on the Pobal HP Deprivation Index and his contribution to social and economic research in Ireland were guided by a deep commitment to using science to build a more equal and democratic society.
UCD Champions – Changing Futures is designed to help students by providing scholarships to help pay for essentials such as food, transport, books and course equipment. This year’s funding builds on previous contributions to UCD Champions from Compass and was provided in the name of Trutz with the funding announced at an event in University College Dublin in December 2018 to honour his memory.
Compass Informatics has a programme of sponsorship and support which focuses on education, youth sport, and health. In 2018 a key support was provided to Cumann Rámhaíochta Choláiste na Coiribe (CRCC), Galway’s Irish language and ever-growing rowing club. This sponsorship enabled the club to buy a brand new four person racing boat, giving a 25% increase in training capacity and setting them up for growth and national titles. More info and launch day video. The new boat, a coxless quad, was named after the soldier, cyclist and champion rower, Paul Giblin, who died in 2017 after a long battle with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Paul held 19 national titles and was a record breaker and winner at the famous Henley Regatta.
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Maxine Askins, a member of the Greater Oklahoma City Chapter of FEW, made this quilt piece. After viewing 'The Dinner Party' during her trip to Houston to attend the FEW Regional Training Program, she got the notion that FEW should be represented...
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Age 41 -- born 12-23-38 in Chicago, Illinois / Spouse -- Allen Roth, engineer, founder Signal Labs, employed by [?] Inc. / 3 children, 2 stepchildren, Robinn[?]-20, Dave-17 & Alayne Fisher-12, Jeff-18 & Tammy Roth-16 / Masters of Science in...
C.C. Slider towboat, 1928.
Tugboats; Boat & ship industry; Tables; Chairs
An interior room of the C.C. Slider towboat with a table and chairs in the middle of it. Owned by E. T. Slider, Inc. this boat was built in Midland, Pennsylvania by Midland Barge Company 1928. The engines were built by Marietta Manufacturing...
Tugboats; Boat & ship industry; Flowers
Interior view of the towboat C.C. Slider shows a sitting room furnished with wicker furniture and vases of flowers. A door visible in the hallway has the word CAPTAIN painted on it. Owned by E. T. Slider, Inc. this boat was built in Midland,...
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A man smoking a pipe stands in the engine room of the C.C. Slider. Owned by E. T. Slider, Inc. this boat was built in Midland, Pennsylvania by Midland Barge Company 1928. The engines were built by Marietta Manufacturing Company. The officers and...
Tugboats; Boat & ship industry
Two piles of rope and a canoe are in this room inside the C.C. Slider. A sign on a locker against the wall says LAMP AND PAINT LOCKER. Owned by E. T. Slider, Inc. this boat was built in Midland, Pennsylvania by Midland Barge Company 1928. The...
View down a hallway toward a bathroom with an open door. Owned by E. T. Slider, Inc. this boat was built in Midland, Pennsylvania by Midland Barge Company 1928. The engines were built by Marietta Manufacturing Company. The officers and crew...
Four wooden chairs are arranged along the walls in this room inside the C.C. Slider towboat. A vase of flowers is on the table in the center of the room. Owned by E. T. Slider, Inc. this boat was built in Midland, Pennsylvania by Midland Barge...
Interior view of the engine room of the C.C. Slider. Owned by E. T. Slider, Inc. this boat was built in Midland, Pennsylvania by Midland Barge Company 1928. The engines were built by Marietta Manufacturing Company. The officers and crew included...
A man is standing on a platform inside what appears to be the engine room of the C.C. Slider towboat. Owned by E. T. Slider, Inc. this boat was built in Midland, Pennsylvania by Midland Barge Company 1928. The engines were built by Marietta...
Owned by E. T. Slider, Inc. this boat was built in Midland, Pennsylvania by Midland Barge Company 1928. The engines were built by Marietta Manufacturing Company. The officers and crew included Captain Ed Hauser (Master); Captain Roy McBride...
View of the C.C. Slider on the Ohio River. Owned by E. T. Slider, Inc. this boat was built in Midland, Pennsylvania by Midland Barge Company 1928. The engines were built by Marietta Manufacturing Company. The officers and crew included Captain Ed...
This view of the C.C. Slider on the Ohio River shows the paddlewheel end of the towboat. Owned by E. T. Slider, Inc. this boat was built in Midland, Pennsylvania by Midland Barge Company 1928. The engines were built by Marietta Manufacturing...
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Crew members stand on all three decks of the C.C. Slider on the Ohio River. Owned by E. T. Slider, Inc. this boat was built in Midland, Pennsylvania by Midland Barge Company 1928. The engines were built by Marietta Manufacturing Company. The...
Interior view of the C.C. Slider from the captain's deck. A row of cars is parked on a ridge on the riverbank. A tower with the words COAL SAND & GRAVEL painted on its side rises behind them. Owned by E. T. Slider, Inc. this boat was built in...
Crew members stand on the deck of the C.C. Slider. Owned by E. T. Slider, Inc. this boat was built in Midland, Pennsylvania by Midland Barge Company 1928. The engines were built by Marietta Manufacturing Company. The officers and crew included...
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The towboat C.C. Slider pushes a barge filled with coal along the Ohio River. Owned by E. T. Slider, Inc. this boat was built in Midland, Pennsylvania by Midland Barge Company 1928. The engines were built by Marietta Manufacturing Company. The...
Tugboats; Boat & ship industry; Coal; Barges
Side view of the towboat C.C. Slider which is pushing a barge filled with coal along the Ohio River. The towboat Henry Watterson is floating toward it in the opposite direction. Owned by E. T. Slider, Inc. this boat was built in Midland,...
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Utah Department of Business Regulation, Division of Public Utilities, Committee of Consumer Services v. Public Service Commission of Utah, Brent H. Cameron, Chairman, David R. Irvine, Commissioner, James M. Byrne. Commissioner : Appendix
Legal Brief
On Petition for Writ of Certiori to the Utah Public Service Commission
Original Brief submitted to the Utah Supreme Court; funding for digitization provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Library Services and Technology Act, administered by the Utah State Library, and sponsored by the S.J. Quinney Law Library; machine-generated OCR, may contain errors.
Legal Brief, Utah Dep't of Business Regulation v. Utah Public Service Comm'n, No. 19361 (1982).
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Egypt inspires Spanish protest
Posted on May 18, 2011 by petrel41
There is much discussion about the revolutionary wave, which started in Tunisia late last year, being “Arab revolutions“.
That is not completely true; it tends to underrate the global significance of pro-democracy movements which originated in Tunisia and Egypt. Burkina Faso is not Arab. Swaziland is not Arab. Albania is not Arab. Italy is not Arab. Wisconsin in the USA is not Arab. Etc.
And Spain is not Arab.
This video says about itself:
Hoping to repeat the success of Egyptian people power, various groups in Spain have occupied Madrid’s main square of “Puerta del Sol”.
Students, workers and the unemployed have called their protests the May 15 movement signifying when they first came out onto the streets in 50 cities across the country.
Like the Arab Spring activists they use twitter and the internet to rally support.
Calling for fewer police and more education the demonstrators say their arms are their weapons.
This is a Dutch TV video on the Puerta del Sol demonstrators.
From ThinkSpain today:
Thousands join Puerta del Sol protest
More than 10,000 people have gathered at the Puerta del Sol in Madrid to demand political and social change.
There is a notable police presence, but there so far the protest has been a peaceful one in a carnival atmosphere and there have been no major clashes to date.
In the centre of the Puerta del Sol square, there are thousands of people chanting and waving banners with slogans like “make the guilty pay for the recession” or “the struggle is on the streets, not in parliament”.
The demonstration has attracted huge media attention, with journalists from a number of different newspapers and TV stations down in the square with the protestors.
At 11pm, one group of protestors starting preparing a to camp out over night, as was the case last night and as the protestors intend to carry on doing until election day on Sunday.
The original protest was held in central Madrid on Sunday and resulted in 19 people being arrested for public order offences and many others sustaining minor injuries.
Similar protests are being held in 13 different Spanish cities, as well as at Spanish embassies around the world, including London.
Meanwhile the Greek government, as a Nato member, has bought in the last years military aircraft from Lockheed Martin: 20 F16Cs and 10 F16D52s, the latter at a cost of $2 billion. That is billion not million.
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Administrator on May 18, 2011 at 6:16 pm said:
SOLIDARITY BULLETIN
AFRO-ASIAN PEOPLES’ SOLIDARITY ORGANIZATION
AAPSO Secretariat issued the following press release:
Glory to Peoples
Revolutions reverberated through much of the Arab Countries from the Ocean to the Gulf where millions of people participated with the slogan “Peoples demand change”. It seemed that Arab people or most of them agreed over one thing and it is the rejection of all what exists and claim the political, socio-economic deep reform and demanding the founding of a new civil state, all this through peaceful peoples marches.
Led by the youth this struggle which had been joined by all sections of the society who suffered oppression, and subservience. Peoples’ demands seemed to focus mainly on all internal issues that are directly related to dignity, justice, freedom, unemployment, poverty and rising prices. However, this was not the true, as these demands were common to all Arab nations in addition to other special demands due to the specificity of each society and due to the regional and international status that play basic role on upsurge of these revolutions.
Arab countries are forced to stick to economic openness and luxury consumption as well as the imposition of the market laws and free trade. Besides opening markets to the economy of foreign invasion under the name of trade liberalization, without limitations or restrictions that control and organize it. All these factors hit the national emerging and the non-competitive economies. Also, it increased the percentages of unemployment and poverty line to the bottom and price hikes. Also, governments became incapable of controlling the leading role. They have turned to a junior partner for the foreigners at the expense of their peoples. They persisted in this subject and had abdicated its role in providing key services such as education, health, training and employment and turned to be a police force that protect the brutality of capitalist and privatized the property assets of peoples. Our countries witnessed stages of waste of nations’ wealth and natural resources and looting of money which exceeded the colonial crisis.
Some governments became closest to the power of authoritarian that exercise state terrorism. Others had the use of aircrafts, heavy weapons, naval military and mercenary to exterminate their nations.
Many of these governments had good relations with the USA as an international power provide domestic supports , so it’s committed to its policy in the region. These governments became dictatorial and careless to their nations which led to a serious decline in community, spread of corruption, rich peoples became richer and poor became poorer and societies sunk to the purile cultures based on hypocrisy and the dependency syndromes, and scientific and creative thinking was deteriorated.
Despite the dictatorial regimes ruled the nations, and the future became darker and darker with no hopes, the youth had the opinion to hold their fate and to determine their destiny. They believe that they need work to change the existing situation so as to achieve better life and to protect the achievements of their ancestors. They work towards establishment of civilized project, drafting new constitutions to be prepared by their own initiatives not by foreigners that cope with this new age.
High sounded slogans emerged on the sky of the Arab World such as the slogans of freedom, pride, dignity and justice. In addition to the slogans related to freedom of opinion, expression, organization, media and the devolution of power, social justice and sustainable development.
The Afro- Asian Peoples’ Solidarity Organization as always stand with the people in their struggle for liberation and welfare, it stands firmly on the side of the right and by the revolutions of Arab people and their legitimate rights. We start a new world , the world of peoples revolutions throughout the world. Let’s open the door for those revolutions with our motto.
glory to all glory to peoples
Situation in Yemen
AAPSO Secretariat had a meeting with Dr. Abd El-Malek Mansour, the Yemeni permanent Deputy to the Arab League and the representative of the Yemeni Council for Peace and Solidarity to AAPSO.
Dr. Abd EL-Malek presented a speech that he addressed at the permanent deputy meeting at the Arab League on 22-3-2011. His speech tackled the Yemeni crisis which began after the election in 2006, in which initiatives appeared about the conflicts inside the ruling party and the coalition of the opposition parties.
When the youth organized demonstrations in all parts of Yemen in a civilized way, they were attacked by gangs. Therefore, some of them were injured and others were murdered. On 18 March 2011, the protests called of the Yemeni President Ali Abdullah to step down, so they were subjected to assassinations by trained snipers.
Dr. Abd El-Malek phoned President Ali Abdullah, requesting him to step down as peoples demanded and not to kill his “sons”, he meant his students at the University.
At the end of his speech, Dr. Abd El-Malek appealed Mr. President Ali Abdullah to step down to save peoples’ lives and the sovereignty of Yemen.
He declared that he hasn’t resigned from his position as a deputy of Yemen, and he is still representing his nation, as a representative to the revolution.
AAPSO members commended his action describing it as the right position. Then they discussed and reviewed all Arab Revolutions. AAPSO is a mass organization and it will support all struggles for establishment of democracy, prosperity and welfare. This is the time for Arab Peoples to assert their willingness.
CSOs Appeal from Bahrain
The Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Bahrain, appeal for help in face of mass systematic murder against the unarmed people of Bahrain, demanding legitimate rights for democratic system which respects its rights Bahrain has been witnessing mass attacks by the riot police, armed militia, and lately Bahraini Armed forces and Saudi-Gulf Forces, against the protesters and civilian people and areas in the Shia area in the capital Manama, Muhraq, Sitra, Hamad Town most of Northern and Middle Region along Budia Road.
This was culminated with mass attack against Sitra Island on Tue. 15 which left 3 killed and hundreds were wounded. The dawn of Wed. 16, witnessed sweeping attack against LULU circle (Martyr Sq.), where in addition to riot police, Bahraini and Saudi armed forces participated using fire arms of all
kinds, while 6 Apatchi copters roamed skies in intimidation.
In both days ambulances from central Salmannia hospital were prevented from taking causalities, and staffs were assaulted. In Sitra, the Local Medical Center was besieged and attacked by the militia. In Lulu Circle, close to Slamanya, ambulances were barred, Salmanya hospital was besieged and then broken through by riot police, in order to arrest the wounded. Electricity was cut off the Lulu Circle, all surrounding area and Salmanya hospital. Mobile service was cut off all northern region of Bahrain till 10 am.
The attacks against Shia residential areas are continuing by riot police and armed militias.
The Bahraini government along with Saudi and Emirates governments are responsible for these massacres. The Saudi-Emirates forces are occupying forces.
We appeal to The Security Council, The UN, The Arab League, the international community, to curb the attackers and to end this massacre. States with leverage to Bahrain government should intervene directly.
Relief agencies such as ICRC, MSF, Arab and international Red Crescent and cross should intervene to break the siege of hospitals and assaults against medical staff.
The Bahraini Civil Society Organizations Bahrain 16th March 2011.
“Solidarity Brigade Mission with the Egyptian Youth”
Dear comrades and friends,
As the Egyptian people and youth could achieve a great victory through their mass movement, they succeeded in ousting the former president Mubarak, who was a puppet of imperialism in the region. The brave people continue their fight right now to continue the process of change and have constitutional reforms that guarantee the fulfillment of the aims of the uprising.
In this regard, WFDY organizes a solidarity brigade mission to Egypt, in cooperation with our member organization Union of Progressive Youth of Egypt from April 13-19, 2011.
The mission will include meetings and seminars in Cairo, visits to Alexandria and Suez which are 2 cities that played a role in the revolution, and also include a tour in the main places where the big events of the revolution occurred.
World Federation of Democratic Youth
Urgent – the Arab Region
Blood…. Price of Freedom and Democracy
Rulers Cling to Positions, Despite Claims of Their Departure
The Arab Program for Human Rights Activists is following with deep concern the developments in the revolutions and protests in Yemen, Bahrain, Libya as well as the beginnings of the popular movement in Syria and Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman, especially with the sticking of the governing regimes to their seats and their willing to suppress the masses of citizens by all means of repression and violations of the rights and freedoms, even the right to life and self-determination as well as the right to demonstrations, in addition to the demands of freedom to get rid of the oppression and injustice, dictatorship, emergency rule and martial law.
In Yemen: 50 of the demonstrators were killed by live bullets in Sanaa. The Yemeni regime is still using excessive force in suppressing the protesters with the news of the redeployment of the Yemeni army in Sana’a to besiege the rebels.
In Bahrain: Number of dead is still increasing, especially with the declaration of a state of emergency and the continuing repression by the Bahraini forces, in addition to the intervention of the UAE- Saudi Arabia joint forces and the reports that mentioned the use of the Saudi Arabian security forces of live ammunition, as well as the evacuation of the area of Pearl Square by force.
In Libya: With the European military action, backed by Canada and the United States, the Libyan citizens resorted to flee from the east of the country into Egypt to escape the shells of aircraft and artillery, fired by Al-Qaddafi on the areas that rebelled against his rule and demand him to leave. The fear arises of turning it into a civil war against the eastern regions of the country.
In Syria: With the continued state of emergency for 48 years and due to the repressive security approach used by the authorities, the death of 4 people has been reported in the demonstrations and protests took place last Friday, March 18 calling for political freedoms and the fight against corruption. In addition, the Syrian security services have arrested 35 protesters on Wednesday, March 16 near the Interior Ministry and brought them into trial on charges of insulting the reputation of the State.
In Saudi Arabia: The Kingdom issued a number of religious decrees that prohibit demonstrations and consider it contrary to the provisions of Islamic law. The security forces have also deployed warplanes on Friday, March 18 to confront demonstrations, which were planned on that day by a group of activists through the social network Facebook. It is worth mentioning that in spite of the multiplicity of claims on the social network Facebook to launch demonstrations on fighting against corruption, releasing political prisoners and demanding freedoms in Saudi Arabia, these calls have been cracked down on the hands of the security and did not work for the mobilization of Saudi citizens. There were only small groups and marches of Shiite in the east of the country and were encountered by the security services with violence and repression.
The Arab Program for Human Rights Activists reaffirms its solidarity with the movements of the Arab peoples and their legitimate aspirations for freedoms and democracy and expresses its full condemnation of all the Arab regimes that use violence as the only path to stop these legitimate popular movements and demands.
Moreover, the Program emphasizes the right of Arab people to choose their representatives and to enjoy their natural resources and to hold their rulers into accountability – whatever their positions – concerning their crimes and corruption which continued for decades and to determine their own destinies in accordance with the provisions of Article 1 of both International Covenants.
World Social Forum International Council Solidarity Delegation to the people of Tunisia
During the last International Council Meeting - February 12th and 13th – right after the World Social Forum in Dakar, it was raised a proposal to send a delegation composed of member organizations of this Council, in order to bring a support and solidarity message to social movements that were part of the uprising for political and social change in Tunisia.
This common desire was Possible thanks to the African Social Forum and the Tunisian Social Forum. Such decision was shown as particularly legitimate, as the Dakar World Social Forum as a whole was “taken” by the revolutionary winds that have shaken Tunisia and Egypt.
The essential problem of the World Social Forum is part of the permanent struggle of the enslaved, tortured and plundered people against those who alienate them, so nothing more natural than to support the Tunisian people, who liberated themselves from a dictatorship left by colonizers and maintained by the international
community and institutions, such as the IMF.
Dakar allowed the voice of Africa, inside the anti-globalization movement, to be no longer perceived by Westerns as being part of a dependency relation, but as a starting point to think of South-North relations based in cooperative building and truthful sharing. Africa has something to say to the world, and the Dakar WSF opened this path, while the uprisings in the Arab countries confirmed the political maturity of the people who fight for their dignity and for another wealth distribution. From the entire African continent, it was Possible to hear the desire of the people to claim for the inclusion of everyone in egalitarian and democratic relations, but also to revoke the speech on the war of civilizations and to stop, in one hand, to take Africa as a lost continent, and in another, to demonize Islam and Muslims.
It looks to us, that, in the light of these political and social in alienation movements of Arab peoples, it would be very interesting for the World Social Forum process to consider the idea of holding the 2013 WSF in Tunisia, taking as the core problem the relations between Northern Africa and Sub-Saharan African, aiming to build new solidarities and think of new ways of international solidarity.
Protestors avoid jail sentence
EGYPT: The junta that has held power since the fall of ex-president Hosni Mubarak has suspended the prison sentences of 120 people arrested for public demonstrations.
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces said on Wednesday that the 120 would still receive one-year suspended sentences, but did not reveal what they had been convicted of.
Military chiefs also denied using gunfire to break up sit-ins since Mubarak was overthrown on February 11.
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/104853
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The world in which The Wheel of Time takes place is lifted directly out of Jordan's pages; it's huge and consists of many different environments. How you navigate the world will depend largely on which game - single player or multipayer - you're playing. The single player experience, with a few exceptions, will see Elayna traversing the world mainly by foot (with a couple notable exceptions). In the multiplayer experience, your character will have more access to travel via Ter'angreal, Portal Stones, and the Ways. However you move around, though, you'll quickly discover that means of locomotion can easily become the least of the your worries...
During your travels, you quickly discover that four locations are crucial to your success in the game. Not surprisingly, these locations are the homes of The Wheel of Time's main characters. Some of these places are ripped directly from the pages of Jordan's books, made flesh with Legend's unparalleled pixel-pushing ways. Other places are specific to the game, conceived and executed with the intent of expanding this game world even further. Either way, they provide a backdrop for some of the most intense first person action and strategy you'll have this year.
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Plato (l. 428/427 - 348/347 BCE) is considered the pre-eminent Greek philosopher, known for his Dialogues and for founding his Academy north of Athens, traditionally considered the first university in the western world. Born Aristocles, son of Ariston of the deme Colytus, Plato had two older brothers (Adeimantus and Glaucon), who both feature famously in Plato's dialogue Republic, and a sister Potone.
He is known by the nickname 'Plato' which, according to Diogenes Laertius (3rd century CE), was given him by his wrestling coach because of his broad shoulders (in Greek 'Platon' means broad). His family was aristocratic and well-connected politically and it seems Plato was expected to pursue a career in politics. His interests, however, tended more toward the arts and, in his youth, he wrote plays and, perhaps, poetry.
After abandoning his literary pursuits and devotinghimself to Socrates, even throughout his trial and execution, Plato wrote the foundational philosophic works of the ancient world which would go on to influence world culture. The three great monotheistic religions of the world owe much to Platonic thought whether directly or through the works of his student and friend Aristotle (l. 384-322 BCE), whose teachings remained consistent with Plato's vision of the importance of caring for one's soul and maintaining a virtuous lifestyle even though Aristotle would depart from some of the specifics of Plato's philosophy.
Socrates and Plato
When he was in his late teens or early twenties, Plato heard Socrates teaching in the market and abandoned his plans to pursue a literary career as a playwright; he burned his early work and devoted himself to philosophy.
It is likely that Plato had known Socrates, at least by reputation, since youth. The Athenian politician, Critias (l. c. 460-40 BCE), was Plato's mother's cousin and studied with Socrates as a young man. It has been suggested, therefore, that Socrates was a regular visitor to Plato's family home. However this may be, nothing is suggested by the ancient writers to indicate Socrates' influence over Plato until the latter was about 20 years old.
Diogenes Laertius writes that Plato was about to compete for the prize in tragedies in the theatre of Bacchus when "he heard the discourse of Socrates and burnt his poems saying, 'Vulcan, come here; for Plato wants your aid' and from henceforth, as they say, being now twenty years old, he became a pupil of Socrates." Nothing is clearly known of Plato's activities for the next eight years save that he studied under the elder philosopher until the latter's trial and execution on the charge of impiety in 399 BCE.
Socrates' execution had a great impact on the then 28 year old and he left Athens to travel, visiting Egypt and Italy among other places, before returning to his homeland to write his dialogues and set up the Academy. His Dialogues almost all feature Socrates as the main character, but whether this is an accurate portrayal of Socrates' actions and beliefs has long been contested.
Plato's contemporary, Phaedo, also one of Socrates' students (and best known for Plato's dialogue named after him) contended that Plato placed his own ideas in Socrates' mouth and made up the dramatic situations of his dialogues. Other philosophers and writers of the time have also questioned the accuracy of Plato's depiction of Socrates but seem in agreement that Plato was a very serious man with lofty ideas which were difficult for many to grasp.
Critics of Plato
Though he was respected as a philosopher of enormous talent in his lifetime (he was at least twice kidnapped and ransomed for a high price), he was by no means universally acclaimed. The value of Plato's philosophy was questioned most strenuously by the Cynic philosopher Diogenes of Sinope who considered Plato an 'elitist snob' and a 'phony'.
When Plato defined a human being as a bi-ped without feathers, Diogenes is said to have plucked a chicken and presented it in Plato's classroom, crying, "Behold, Plato's human being." Plato allegedly replied that his definition would now need to be revised, but this concession to a critic seems to have been an exception rather than the rule. Criticisms aside, however, Plato's work exerted an enormous impact on his contemporaries and those who followed.
The Apology is considered universally as the beginning of western philosophy.
Plato's Dialogues
Plato’s Dialogues of the Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo are commonly collected under the title The Last Days of Socrates and this four-act drama shows Socrates before, during, and after his trial in the Athenian court. I.F. Stone praises Plato’s Apology as “a masterpiece of world literature, a model of courtroom pleading; and the greatest single piece of Greek prose that has come down to us. It rises to a climax which never fails to touch one deeply”, and Stone is certainly not alone in his estimation of the work.
The Apology is considered universally as the beginning of western philosophy. Plato’s Euthyphro, however often overlooked, sets the stage for Apology while also providing the reader with another glimpse into the values Socrates may have held and the way in which he went about teaching these values. Perhaps it was Plato’s intention to show why Socrates would have been put on trial in the first place, since the young fundamentalist, Euthyphro, is hardly hurting anyone with his beliefs and, no doubt, the case he brings against his own father would have been thrown out of court. As Euthyphro clearly and ardently believes in the gods of Greece, and as Socrates soundly shows him that his beliefs are inconsistent and incomplete, the dialogue illustrates what could have been meant by the charge of “corrupting the youth”.
In the Apology, Plato recounts the foundational speech of Socrates (whether factual or his own creation) in defending the importance of the philosopher's - or anyone's - right to stand up for their personal convictions against the opinion of society. In defending himself against the unjust charges of hisa accusers, Socrates says:
Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you and, while I have life and strength, I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy, exhorting anyone whom I meet after my manner, and convincing him saying: O my friend, why do you who are a citizen of the great and mighty and wise city of Athens care so much about laying up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation and so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul, which you never regard or heed at all? Are you not Ashamed of this? And if the person with whom I am arguing says: Yes, but I do care; I do not depart or let him go at once; I interrogate and examine and cross-examine him, and if I think that he has no virtue, but only says that he has, I reproach him with undervaluing the greater, and overvaluing the less. And this I should say to everyone whom I meet, young and old, citizen and alien, but especially to the citizens, inasmuch as they are my brethren. For this is the command of God, as I would have you know: and I believe that to this day no greater good has ever happened in the state than my service to the God. For I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons and your properties, but first and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue come money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, my influence is ruinous indeed. But if anyone says that this is not my teaching, he is speaking an untruth. Wherefore, O men of Athens, I say to you, do as Anytus bids or not as Anytus bids, and either acquit me or not; but whatever you do, know that I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times. (29d-30c)
This speech has continued to inspire activists, revolutionaries, and many others for the past two thousand years but would be meaningless if Socrates had not chosen to place his life on the line to stand behind his words. The dialogue of the Crito shows Socrates doing just that as it is a discussion of the law and how, as a citizen of the state, one should obey the law even if one disagrees with it.
Socrates' friend Crito suggests he escape, and offers him the means to do so, but Socrates rejects the offer, pointing out that his life's work would mean nothing were he to attempt dodging the consequences of his words and actions. This dialogue, set in Socrates' prison cell as he awaits execution, prepares a reader for the final act of the drama, Plato’s Phaedo, in which Socrates attempts to prove the immortality of the soul.
Plato very purposefully states in the dialogue that he himself was not present that day and leaves it to his main character, the narrator Phaedo, to relate the events of Socrates' last hours which were devoted entirely to philosophical discourse with his students. Plato has the character of Socrates say, at one point:
I will go back to what we have so often spoken of, and begin with the assumption that there exists an absolute beauty, and an absolute good, and an absolute greatness, and so on. If you grant me this, and agree that they exist, I hope to be able to show you what my cause is, and to discover that the soul is immortal. (100b)
If the reader does grant this to Socrates then, indeed, the soul is proven immortal; if one does not grant the assumption, however, it is not. The `assumption’ that there exists “an absolute good and an absolute greatness” is quite a large one, and Plato’s dialogues, no matter the subject they treat, may be read as a life’s work to prove the truth of what Socrates asks an audience to grant him.
The Death of Socrates
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The Quest for Truth
The Dialogues of Plato universally concern themselves with the quest for Truth and the understanding of what is Good. Plato contended that there was one universal truth which a human being needed to recognize and strive to live in accordance with. This truth, he claimed, was embodied in the realm of Forms. Plato’s Theory of Forms states, simply put, that there exists a higher realm of truth and that our perceived world of the senses is merely a reflection of the greater one.
When one looks at a horse, then, and values that horse as `beautiful’, one is responding to how closely that particular horse on earth corresponds to the `Form of Beauty’ in the realm of Forms. In order to recognize the `Form of Beauty’, one needs first be able to recognize that this perceived world is merely an illusion or a reflection, and that what one calls `beautiful’ on earth is not beautiful in itself but is only `beautiful’ in as much as it participates in the `Form of Beauty’ (a concept further explored in Plato's famous `Allegory of the Cave' in Book VII of Republic). This central concept of Platonic thought is a refutation of the Sophist Protagoras' claim that "Of all things, a man is the measure", meaning that reality is subject to individual interpretation. Plato completely rejected this claim and spent his life trying to refute it through his work.
The old saying, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” would be completely unacceptable to Plato. If Person A claims a horse is beautiful and Person B claims that the horse is not, one of them needs to be right and one wrong in their claim; they cannot both be correct. According to Plato, the one who is right will be the one who understands and recognizes the Form of Beauty as it is expressed in that particular horse. This claim, of course, stands in direct opposition to Protagoras’ assertion that “Man is the measure of all things” and, it seems, it was supposed to. Plato devoted most of his life to trying to prove the reality of the realm of Forms and to disprove Protagoras' relativism, even to the last dialogue he wrote, the Laws.
In all of Plato’s work, the one constant is that there is a Truth which it is the duty of a human being to recognize and strive for, and that one cannot just believe whatever one wants to (again, a direct challenge to Protagoras). Even though he never conclusively proved the existence of the Forms, his standard inspired later philosophers and writers, notably Plotinus, who is credited with founding the Neo-Platonic school which exerted significant influence on early Christianity.
Plato's Influence
The enormity of Plato's influence was recorded by Diogenes Laertius who wrote:
He was the first author who wrote treatises in the form of dialogues, as Favorinus tells us in the eighth book of his Universal History. And he was also the first person who introduced the analytical method of investigation, which he taught to Leodamus of Thasos. He was also the first person in philosophy who spoke of antipodes, and elements, and dialectics, and actions (poiêmata) and oblong numbers, and plane surfaces, and the providence of God. He was likewise the first of the philosophers who contradicted the assertion of Lysias, the son of Cephalus, setting it out word for word in his Phaedrus. And he was also the first person who examined the subject of grammatical knowledge scientifically. And as he argued against almost every one who had lived before his time, it is often asked why he has never mentioned Democritus. (Lives, XIX)
In this passage, Laertius is essentially claiming that Plato contradicted or significantly improved upon all of the accepted theories which came before him, and an important recognition of his influence on the world to the present day is summed up by the 20th century CE philosopher Alfred North Whitehead who stated, "The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato".
This influence is perhaps best represented by Plato's most famous dialogue, Republic. Professor Forrest E. Baird writes, "There are few books in Western civilization that have had the impact of Plato's Republic - aside from the Bible, perhaps none" (Ancient Philosophy, 68). Republic has been denounced as a treatise on fascism (by Karl Popper, among others) and praised as an eloquent and elevating work by scholars such as Bloom and Cornford. The dialogue begins with a consideration of what Justice means and goes on to develop the ideal, perfect State. Throughout the piece, Plato's ideas of Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and Justice are developed as they are explored by Socrates and his interlocutors.
While the work has traditionally been understood as Plato's attempt to outline his model for the perfectly just and efficient society, an important point is often overlooked: The character of Socrates very clearly states in Book II. 369 that they are creating this `city' as a means to better understand the function of the perfect `soul'. The society which the men discuss, then, is not intended to reflect an actual physical political-social entity but rather to serve symbolically as a means by which a reader may recognize strengths and weaknesses in his or her own constitution.
The young poet and playwright Aristocles was always present in crafting the mature works of the philosopher Plato and, in all the dialogues, a reader is expected to consider the work as carefully as one would a poem. Unlike his famous student Aristotle, Plato never clearly spells out the meaning of a dialogue for a reader. The reader is supposed to confront the truths which the dialogue presents individually. It is this combination of artistic talent with philosophical abstractions which has assured Plato's enduring value as philosopher and artist.
The School of Athens by Raphael
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Aristotle & Plato's Legacy
While Aristotle disagreed with Plato's Theory of Forms and many other aspects of his philosophy, he was profoundly affected by his teacher; most notably in his insistence on a right way of living and a proper way to pursue one's path in life (as outlined most clearly in Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics). Aristotle would go on to tutor Alexander the Great and, in so doing, would help spread the brand of philosophy Plato had established to the known world.
Plato died at the age of 80 in 348/7 BCE, and leadership of the Academy passed to his nephew Speusippus. Tradition holds that the Academy endured for nearly 1,000 years as a beacon of higher learning until it was closed by the Christian Emperor Justinian in 529 CE in an effort to suppress the heresy of pagan thought. Ancient sources, however, claim that the Academy was severely damaged in the First Mithridatic War in 88 BCE and almost almost completely destroyed in the Roman Emperor Sulla's sack of Athens in 86 BCE. Even so, some version of the Academy seems to have survived until it was closed by the zealous adherents of the new religion of Christianity.
Plato's Academy was a wooded garden located near to one of his homes and not a `university' as one would picture such an institution today, and so the area underwent many changes both before and after Plato's school was established there and seems to have been a center of learning for centuries.
The Roman writer Cicero claims that Plato was not even the first to have a school in the gardens of Academia, but that Democritus (c. 460 BCE) was the original founder and leader of a philosophical school in the locale. It is also established that Simplicius was the head of a school in the gardens, which was still known as the Academy, as late as 560 CE. Even so, in the present day the site is known, and honored, as that of Plato's Academy, reflecting the importance of the philosopher's influence and respect for his legacy.
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12 Horror Stories Show Why Wednesday’s Big Supreme Court Abortion Case Matters
Abortion rights foes are asking the Supreme Court to ban buffer zones around abortion clinics.
A 1970s abortion protest, or the wave of the future?Robin Nelson/ZUMA
Liam Lowney does not talk about his sister, Shannon Elizabeth Lowney, without first gushing about her personality. She was bright and intelligent, a talented student and passionate musician with an “infectious smile,” he says. Only then will he discuss how she died: On December 30, 1994, as she worked the front desk at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Brookline, Massachusetts, a man named John C. Salvi entered and riddled her face with bullets.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in McCullen v. Coakley, a case in which anti-abortion-rights activists are challenging a Massachusetts law—passed partially in response to Lowney’s murder—that bans protests within 35 feet of an entrance to an abortion clinic. The petitioners claim the law violates their First Amendment rights. Eleanor McCullen, the lead challenger, is a septuagenarian grandmother whose refrigerator is barely visible beneath all the baby photos that she says were sent to her by women she encountered outside clinics and persuaded not to proceed with an abortion.
But Massachusetts’s buffer zone was not created in response to peaceful protests like those staged by McCullen. It was written in response to people like Salvi and protesters who use physical force to block women from obtaining abortions. Even after Republican Gov. Paul Cellucci signed a modest buffer zone into law in 2000, Massachusetts’s abortion clinics were swamped by protesters who physically barred women from entering. Yet lawyers for McCullen aren’t merely asking the court to strike down the extended 35-foot buffer zone, which Massachusetts established in 2007; they are asking the justices to ban all buffer zones outside abortion clinics.
Attorneys for the ACLU, which filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case, concede that buffer zones do impinge on free speech, but they contend this is necessary to protect the competing constitutional right to obtain an abortion. To prove that point, the ACLU compiled police reports, oral testimonies, and written statements that describe how difficult it had become in Massachusetts to obtain or provide an abortion before the 35-foot buffer zone was implemented in 2007. The following excerpts offer a glimpse of the pandemonium that often reigned outside Massachusetts’s clinics before this law was enacted.
Gail Kaplan, a patient escort at the Boston Planned Parenthood clinic, speaking to the Massachusetts Legislature in 2007:
The protestors are moving closer and closer to the main door. They scream and block the way for the patients to get into the clinic. We fill out police reports almost every week regarding the way they encroach upon the door, but nothing has changed…They’re getting so close that patients are terrified to even walk into the clinic.
I have often been spit upon while escorting a patient into the clinic since they got so close to me while shouting their protests…When it rains, they bring these huge umbrellas and try to knock the escorts out of the way.
Michael T. Baniukiewicz, head of security for Planned Parenthood facilities in Massachusetts, in a sworn 2007 affidavit:
“Bad enough I was scared coming here, afraid I might get shot.”
I have observed [two regular protesters] standing by the PPLM-Boston garage entrance in Boston Police hats and jerseys…I saw [them] wearing Brookline Police hats and jerseys while standing near the entrance to the parking lot in front of Women’s Health Services.
They carried clipboards and had patients write on clipboards. These patients appeared to be frightened and upset when they learned that [they] were not police. Patients informed me that they had provided their names, addresses, and telephone numbers.
Baniukiewicz, in a 2007 deposition:
They place four of their protesters, especially on Saturdays, right on the curbstone of the buffer zone, so when people try to park there to let a patient out, they can’t get out.
On a weekly basis…they probably have at least one or two women who leave because they’re afraid to enter the parking lot because they block the parking lot entranceway.
The safety issue is scary…[The protesters] will look to start a fight, and obviously that’s keeping people from entering the building.
Vanessa B. in a harassment incident report filed with Boston police, December 5, 1998:
One person was carrying a fake baby doll and was yelling, “It’s alive. You see what you’re doing!” Another person had a tape recorder and was playing a tape with a child crying, “Mommy, Mommy”…Bad enough I was scared coming here, afraid I might get shot…They made me scared, but they are not running me away because I have rights too.
Karen Caponi, a nurse practitioner and director of the Worcester Planned Parenthood clinic, speaking to the Massachusetts state Legislature in 1999:
One of our of physicians has been threatened with “I’m watching you” and “You won’t be smiling for long.”
Filomena Katia Natale, a former nurse for the Boston Planned Parenthood clinic, speaking to the Massachusetts Legislature in 1999:
As I was on my way to work, several protesters blocked my entrance into the parking garage at the clinic. One protester stood between my car and the card reader so that I could not swipe my pass to open the garage door. As I opened my window to ask the escorts to help me, the protesters moved very close to my car and began screaming at me and making comments about my nationality.
Melissa Conroy, a patient advocate at the Four Women Clinic in Attleboro, writing to the Massachusetts Legislature in 2007:
Patients have reported feeling too intimidated by the pacing protesters to enter the property, and turning back.
Occasionally, anti-abortion-rights protesters attracted and clashed with pro-abortion-rights activists, making the situation even worse, as William B. Evans, a Boston police captain, says in a sworn 2007 affidavit:
“Even more egregious are the protesters who dress as Boston Police Department officers.”
On approximately ten Saturdays in late 2006 and 2007, a pro-choice group that we called the “Pink Group” was particularly disruptive. They would go into the 18-foot buffer zone and they would push, shove, and step on other people’s feet in order to get a good position. When this pro-abortion group was present, the combined presence of the pro- and anti-abortion protestors within the 18-foot zone around the front entrance would effectively block the door.
Dianne Luby, president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, speaking to the Massachusetts Legislature in 2007:
I see…protesters photographing and filming into patients and employees’ cars and taking photos of license plate numbers to post on websites.
Martha Coakley, Massachusetts’ attorney general, writing to the state Legislature in 2007:
Demonstrators regularly crowd facility entrances and surround women, facility employees and volunteers with graphic and discomfiting pictures of aborted fetuses, and shout at and taunt them calling them “baby killers” and “murderers.”
Even more egregious are the protestors who dress as Boston Police Department officers and approach women and their companions at close distance, pretending that they are escorting them to the clinic’s entrance, only to taunt them or force leaflets into their hands as they make their way to and from the healthcare facilities.
Alice Verhoeven, vice president and clinic director for Planned Parenthood and Preterm Health Services of Greater Boston, speaking to the Massachusetts Legislature in 1999:
“Patients enter with terrified looks and burst into tears.”
Approximately 100 patients have filed harassment incident reports about the protesters to address their frustrations, anger, and fear at having their entrance to the clinic impeded. One woman stated that the protesters’ actions scared her. “I thought they were going to hurt me,” she said…They tell of their fear as protesters yell and follow closely behind them right up to the door.
Patients are harassed and pursued to the door of the clinic…On countless occasions I have seen patients enter our lobby with terrified, confused looks and often burst into tears as a result of this harassment.
A protester once pushed one of our clinic escorts against a car waiting at the garage.
Liz McMahon, a patient escort at the Boston Planned Parenthood clinic, speaking to the Massachusetts Legislature in 2007:
I’ve had personal experience with several people leaving on a Saturday and by telling them there aren’t as many protestors during the week and they opted to make appointments during the week.
They’re saying, “Don’t get an abortion because you’re going to die, and I’ll show you where the ambulance is going to pull up and take you away.” Or they say things like, “Don’t bother going in the garage, the garage is closed,” when the garage is, in fact, open.
Liam Lowney, the brother of Shannon Elizabeth Lowney, writing to the Legislature in 2007:
Shannon was the first to open the clinic each day. It is because of this that the protesters out front named her “Public Enemy #1.” …As Shannon spoke to my family about her morning routine, I remember my father asking, “Well, where do you park? Do they know which car is yours? Could they do something to your car?” The car turned out to be fine, but never did it occur to us that we could lose her. Now we all know.
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Residues (petroleum), hydrodesulfurized atmospheric tower
EC number: 265-181-2 | CAS number: 64742-78-5 A complex combination of hydrocarbons obtained by treating an atmospheric tower residuum with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst under conditions primarily to remove organic sulfur compounds. It consists of hydrocarbons having carbon numbers predominantly greater than C20 and boiling above approximately 350°C (662°F). This stream is likely to contain 5 wt. % or more of 4- to 6-membered condensed ring aromatic hydrocarbons.
Discussion on methodology
In undertaking environmental risk assessments the best use of all available ecotoxicity data should be made. However, the assessment of ecotoxicity data for many petroleum products is complicated since several different test methods and procedures have been used. As petroleum products contain a mixture of substances with a range of solubilities a critical aspect with respect to interpreting the validity of ecotoxicity tests is how the test media is prepared. Although not always explicitly stated most of the data generated in the period up to the early 1990s originated from experiments in which a "water soluble fraction" (WSF) was tested. WSFs are prepared by mixing the petroleum product with the aqueous test medium (e. g. 25 to 50 mL product with 1 L of medium). After mixing the test solutions are then allowed to stand, the aqueous phase is separated and dilutions of this medium are used in testing the species under study. The results are expressed either as (a) the dilution, or % WSF, or (b) the concentration of dissolved hydrocarbons expressed in mg/L (CONCAWE, 1992). A disadvantage with these WSF studies is that it is not possible to convert the quoted result to the amount of product that must be added to a given volume of aqueous medium to produce the effect.
The problems of preparing test media for oil products were recognised in the early 1990s. As a consequence the recommended method, which enables ecotoxicity assessments of petroleum products to be interpreted, was to determine the amount of test substance that must be equilibrated with the test medium to produce a specified level of effect. This is the so-called "loading rate" or water accommodated fraction (WAF) methodology as developed by Girling et al. (1992) and reported in CONCAWE (1992). Even with these laboratory based studies there are doubts about their value in the context of risk assessment owing to the fact that once a petroleum product is released to the environment its constituent substances will partition to the various compartments (water, sediment, soil and air) in accordance with their physico-chemical properties. The assumption being that in the receiving environment the substances will be degraded and transformed in accordance with their individual susceptibilities to physical, chemical and biological degradation processes and will exhibit effects in accordance with their individual toxic potencies.
Discussion on mechanisms of toxicity and PNEC derivation
In an attempt to better understand the potential for adverse effects of a product, the effects of a product’s constituent substances (hydrocarbon blocks) can be integrated in such a way that an overall assessment of their combined effects can be made. For the assessment of toxic effects it is important that the method of integration meets the assertion that effects can only be integrated for substances that share the same mode of toxic action. All components of petroleum products exhibit non-polar narcosis effects on organisms.
Under ideal circumstances a PNEC for a hydrocarbon block would be derived from ecotoxicological test data for one or more components that are representative of that block. The TGD sets out how this can be done either by applying an Assessment Factor to the lowest acute ecotoxicological effect or chronic no effect concentration or by applying statistical extrapolation methods to a number of data points. For petroleum products this was not a practical option since the majority of its mass is comprised of chemical components that cannot be accurately described by a chemical structure (and which may not have a unique CAS number) and for which there is an absence of ecotoxicological data. Under such circumstances the only practical option is to estimate a PNEC using a relationship between physico-chemical descriptors of a component or a hydrocarbon block and concentrations resulting in ecotoxicological effects or absence of an effect. This is the hypothesis encompassed by the Target Lipid Model (TLM) described by McCarthy et al. (1991).
The theory underpinning the TLM is that the concentration of a substance in a lipid that is responsible for the onset of a non-polar narcosis effect is the same when expressed on a molar basis for a range of taxonomic groups e. g. fish, invertebrates and algae. Consequently the toxic potency of a substance depends upon its capacity to achieve the threshold concentration within an organism. There are a number of variables that determine this capacity, key of which are the solubility of the substance in water and lipid and its molecular size. In an application of the theory, DiToro et al. (2000) have published a non-polar narcosis-based QSAR for predicting the aqueous concentration of a hydrocarbon substance that induces a specified level of biological effect. The QSAR relates biological effect to the log Kow of the substance. Log Kow is a function of the solubility of a substance in water and lipid (octanol) but is limited by molecular size because large molecules cannot pass through biological membranes.
In the absence of measured ecotoxicity data for a substance the TLM and associated QSARs provide a theoretical basis for predicting the ecotoxicity of a substance. By extension of the theory it should also be possible to evaluate the toxicity of a mixture of substances provided that they have the same mode of toxic action. McGrath et al. (2004) have validated the theory by characterising the aquatic toxicity of six gasoline blending streams and have showed that predicted and measured toxicity were in good agreement.
Having established procedures that enable the toxicity of a mixture of hydrocarbons to be predicted, McGrath et al. (2004) have also utilised statistical theory developed by a number of workers to define an acute species sensitivity distribution for narcotic chemicals. A relationship has been established enabling the concentration of a hydrocarbon substance to be determined that will affect a specified proportion of the species present in a community. By setting the proportion to a notional low level (e. g. 5%), a hazard concentration (HCx where x is the proportion that might be affected i. e. 5%) is obtained. The HCx has similarities with a hazard concentration derived by applying statistical extrapolation procedures described in the TGD to a set of test substance data. It can also be considered analogous to, and used for risk assessment in the same way as, a PNEC derived by applying an Assessment Factor (AF) specified in the TGD to a lowest acute EC50 or LC50 value in a data set.
Short term toxicity to fish:
In a key semi-static 96-hour acute rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) test (OECD 203; KS=1),10 animals/dose were exposed to water accommodated fractions (WAFs) of Intermediate fuel oils 30-380 (CAS # 68476-33-5) at loading rates of 0, 2.0, 5.1, 13, 32, and 79 mg/L. The LL50 was 79 mg/L (EMBSI, 2008a).
In six reliable supporting semi-static 96-hour acute rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) studies, the LL50 values of other heavy fuel oil samples ranged from >94 to >1000 mg/L (EMBSI, 2008b,c,d; Shell, 1997a, b).
Long term toxicity to fish:
Composition information, derived using two dimensional gas chromatography, has been used in conjunction with the PETROTOX model to calculate this endpoint.
The aquatic toxicity was estimated using the PETROTOX computer model, which combines a partitioning model (used to calculate the aqueous concentration of hydrocarbon components as a function of substance loading) with the Target Lipid Model (used to calculate acute and chronic toxicity of non-polar narcotic chemicals). PETROTOX computes toxicity based on the summation of the aqueous-phase concentrations of hydrocarbon block(s) that represent a petroleum substance and membrane-water partition coefficients (Kmw) that describe the partitioning of the hydrocarbons between the water and organism. The estimated freshwater fish NOEL (No Observed Effect Level) value is 0.1 mg/L based on mortality (Redman et al., 2010b).
Short term toxicity to aquatic invertebrates:
In a key, static 48 hourDaphnia magnaacute toxicity test (OECD 202, KS=1), five daphnids/ replicate were exposed to the Water Accommodated Fraction (WAF) of heavy cracked fuel oil (MRD-10-579) at nominal concentrations of 0.05, 0.15, 0.45, 1.35 and 4.05 mg/L. The 48 hour EL50 was 0.22 mg/L based on mobility (EMBSI 2012a).
In seven reliable supporting 48-hourDaphnia magnastudies using WAF methodology, the EL50 values of other heavy fuel oil samples varied between 2 and >1000 mg/L (EMBSI, 2008e,f,g,h,i; Shell, 1997a, b).
Long term toxicity to aquatic invertebrates:
The aquatic toxicity was estimated using the PETROTOX computer model, which combines a partitioning model (used to calculate the aqueous concentration of hydrocarbon components as a function of substance loading) with the Target Lipid Model (used to calculate acute and chronic toxicity of non-polar narcotic chemicals). PETROTOX computes toxicity based on the summation of the aqueous-phase concentrations of hydrocarbon block(s) that represent a petroleum substance and membrane-water partition coefficients (Kmw) that describe the partitioning of the hydrocarbons between the water and organism. The estimated freshwater invertebrate NOEL (No Observed Effect Level) value is 0.27 mg/L based on immobility and numbers of live young produced per adult by Day 21 (Redman et al., 2010b).
Toxicity to aquatic algae:
In a key, static 72 hourPseudokirchneriella subcapitatagrowth inhibition test (OECD 201, KS=1), 10000 cells/mL were exposed to the Water Accommodated Fraction (WAF) of heavy cracked fuel oils (MRD-10-579) at nominal concentrations of 0.05, 0.23, 1.01, 4.56 and 20.5 mg/L. The 72 hour EL50 was 0.32 mg/L and NOELR was 0.05 mg/L based on growth rate (EMBSI 2012b).
In seven reliable supporting 72-hour algae (Pseudokirchnerella subcapitata)toxicity studies using WAF methodology, the EL50 values based on growth rate and biomass varied between 0.75 to >107 mg/L and 0 - <300mg/L, respectively (EMBSI, 2008j,k,l,m; Shell, 1997a, b).
Toxicity to microorganisms:
The aquatic toxicity was estimated using the PETROTOX computer model, which combines a partitioning model (used to calculate the aqueous concentration of hydrocarbon components as a function of substance loading) with the Target Lipid Model (used to calculate acute and chronic toxicity of non-polar narcotic chemicals). PETROTOX computes toxicity based on the summation of the aqueous-phase concentrations of hydrocarbon block(s) that represent a petroleum substance and membrane-water partition coefficients (Kmw) that describe the partitioning of the hydrocarbons between the water and organism. The estimated 72-hr LL50 value for Tetrahymena pyriformis, one of the most sensitive microorganism species, is >1000 mg/L and the estimated NOEL is 14.91 mg/L (Redman et al., 2010b).
Some information for this category has been generated using the models PETROTOX and/or SPARC. The QMRFs for PETROTOX and SPARC are attached in IUCLID Section 13, with the associated QPRF.
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Sabrina Vetter on September 23, 2019 September 23, 2019
#Crucial21DbW: Someone Great directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
While the romantic comedy genre is often felt to have come to a dead end, Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s Someone Great invites its audience to rethink. More so, the writer-director’s debut shows the possibilities that await in the genre’s present and future.
There is no arguing that Someone Great is a romantic comedy, as it is about romance. However, for all it’s worth, it is not a romantic film. Robinson’s directing and screenwriting debut exists at the other end of the spectrum of romantic gestures and meet cutes: heartbreak. Therefore, in what rather is a post-romantic comedy that speaks about life after breaking up, the film’s set-up is quite different from other rom-coms: no prince charming, no “will they won’t they”, no third act reconciliation (and, believe me, no spoilers here!).
Robinson makes use of what initially reads just like another story about heartbreak to dismantle the usual central roles of romantic heroines and heroes in genre films and is more interested in how female friendships prove to be support systems even in the hardest of times. While the director allows main character Jenny’s (Gina Rodriguez) love story with her ex Nate (LaKeith Stanfield) to play out for the audience, all of it is shown in flashbacks and time lapse. In the present day, the two most important people in Jenny’s life take front and center: her girlfriends. Excitingly portrayed as a free spirit with a fear of commitment and a pretend-uptight bore with a five-year-plan revealed to be an adventurous woman of desire, Erin (DeWanda Wise) and Blair (Brittany Snow) bring diversity to the film on all levels–how they are portrayed as characters, how they are played by their actors, and how their ideas of relationships counter each other’s. As Erin and Blair stick with Jenny through her hardest time, it transpires that it’s these two who will last above and beyond into the next chapter in Jenny’s life. Therefore, friendship in Someone Great is quite unexpectedly the true romance. It is the theme of friendship that Robinson is able to examine in a unique way in the very varied rom-com genre: stuck right between its central love story, and therefore at the center itself.
Someone Great is available to stream on Netflix. Follow Jennifer Kaytin Robinson on Instagram and Twitter.
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Written by Sabrina Vetter
Sabrina is a freelance writer based in Germany. Among other things, she is part of the team of the film blog Filmloewin. She has an M.A. in American as well as English Studies and is currently writing her PhD thesis focused on Indigenous representation in contemporary film and other media. View all posts by Sabrina Vetter
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‘From the Front Lines,’ Stories of Resistance and a Movement for Black Lives
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The hashtag #EndSARS first surfaced in 2017 as activists in Nigeria sought to abolish a federal police unit called the Special Anti-Robbery Squad that residents said had misused its power. Known as SARS, demonstrators accused the unit of inflicting violence on residents.
In that year, a movement to end police brutality was born.
Saidu Tejan-Thomas was inspired by the protests in Nigeria, which continue on a regular basis. As the host of the podcast Resistance, Mr. Tejan-Thomas talked to several Nigerian activists for an episode titled, “See You On The Road.”
I caught up with Mr. Tejan-Thomas to talk about his podcast, which describes itself as “stories from the front lines of the movement for Black lives, told by the generation fighting for change,” and about his interviews with the Nigerian activists. Our conversation has been lightly edited.
PL: What’s different about the stories that “Resistance” is telling?
STT: It’s the personal narratives that you get from the activists and everyday people who are becoming activists. It’s the writing on the show. We spend a lot of time trying to make the writing feel intimate, accurate and beautiful to listen to.
We really try to make it feel like it’s Black people talking to Black people. Try to also make it feel like we’re talking about these stories in a way that is outside of the white gaze. This is a show that is aimed predominantly at Black and brown voices and Black and brown people and so we try to make sure that we are speaking in that way. That the show feels like somebody you know or somebody I know is making it.
PL: How did the “See You On The Road” episode come about?
STT: I found out about #EndSARS on Twitter over a month ago. A lot of my Nigerian and West African friends were tweeting about it and so I started looking into it and some of the things that people were saying about SARS and their experiences with it sounded horrific. It’s the kind of violence that you hear about in Africa but nothing ever gets done.
I felt like I recognized that because I’m from Sierra Leone and lived through the Sierra Leone Civil War when I was a kid. I went through the government fighting against rebels, rebels fighting against their own people and beyond that, I have seen cops in Sierra Leone who are very aggressive and unashamed to solicit you for bribes.
A gay couple in a club in Lagos, Nigeria, last year.Credit…Temilade Adelaja/Reuters
So I started calling around and one of my Nigerian friends connected me with his cousin, Joel, who lives in Lagos. I could just hear the anger in his voice, but I could also hear the conviction that he was really dedicated and activated and wanted to do something to end this.
And then another member of our team Wallace Mack Jr., a producer, is connected to a lot of activists around the world and he had a relationship with this woman Fey and he told us about the work that Fey had been doing with Safe House in Nigeria to keep queer Nigerians safe.
All that automatically was very interesting to me because we can talk about what’s going on in Nigeria — the police brutality, the corruption, the gruesome things that the cops have been accused of doing — but the thing I think that’s probably getting drowned out in all that is within the movement, and even within the country. The queer folks are pushed off to the side and are fighting against being marginalized.
So when Mack brought up that queer Nigerians were also fighting this fight and trying to be out there in the front lines, it was really surprising to me because being queer anywhere is like a health risk. You’re risking a lot. But being queer in Nigeria, even more so.
To see that people were putting themselves on the line, and just being outwardly openly queer, I felt like that was a story that we needed to push to the forefront and to highlight.
PL: It was really chilling hearing Kokoma, a queer activist, talk about almost losing her life at a demonstration and how her mother was more concerned about her being queer and telling her that she couldn’t return home. Why was it important for you to highlight these specific experiences?
STT: The show wants to be heavy and dark since the things that people are fighting against are often dark and heavy, but these people’s lives are also filled with color, joy, love, humor and so much more.
With Kokoma, we felt we needed somebody who had actually gone through the violence on both ends. The violence of being pushed away by your mother because you’re queer, but also the violence of the government. The one that everybody, a lot of the people in the country, queer or not, experienced, such as the Lekki toll gate massacre.
The Lekki toll gate in Lagos, Nigeria on Oct. 24, 2020.Credit…Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters
PL: How has the Lekki toll gate shooting affected the movement now?
STT: From the few people I’ve talked to on the ground in Nigeria, it feels like it was a major moment in the movement, in that before the Lekki toll gate shooting there were tons of protests in the streets. After the protests, the government clamped down, and to be honest, I think seeing that many people being shot at and people dying is a big deterrent for people to not want to protest anymore.
Thousands of people went through something traumatic together and I think that has really bound them in a way and given them, if not anything else, a grim and stark understanding of the lengths their government is willing to go to stop them from protesting. I think that is something that will stay with them probably for a long time.
PL: What do you hope people take away from the episode?
STT: That the movement for Black lives is a global movement and it’s been happening in one way or another all over the world. Wherever there are Black people, there is a fight. I think in Nigeria what we’re seeing is a really surprising swell of young folks who are trying to determine the future of their country and really take that into their hands.
Of course, there are always going to be people who are fighting and who are organizing in these places, such as Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Haiti, but the numbers in which Nigerians came out I think was really surprising and I hope people take away that the fight around the world for Black Lives is going to continue no matter what.
PL: Will there be other episodes in the future?
STT: We definitely want to continue to branch out. We want to take a global view because ultimately, the resistance movements we’re seeing around the country are all interconnected at a time when things like populism, really conservative presidents and fascism is all the rage around the world. There has to be a push back and a counter movement to that. I think that what we’re seeing right now is exactly that — people standing up and fighting back, people that we necessarily didn’t expect would ever do so.
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Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands
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This new flagship store for booksellers Foyles at 107 Charing Cross Road in London is the largest bookstore to be built in the UK this century.
Located in the former site of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design on Charing Cross Road, it sits metres from their old store which was its home for over 100 years. Designed by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands, Foyles 107 Charing Cross Road will sell a range of over 200,000 different titles on four miles (6.5km) of shelves. With 37,000 square feet of flexible retail space, spread across eight shop floors in the two halves of the four storey building, the interior layout allows for easy navigation and the serendipitous discovery of new books.
The scheme strips away a century's ad hoc accretions to reveal the original structure of the old art school building. By enlarging the existing central lightwell, an atrium is created which floods daylight into the centre of the building. The whole bookshop is manifest and easily accessible, with only one short flight of stairs required to connect between each floor section and glazed fronted lifts servicing each shop floor.
There were significant challenges to the change in use from art school to bookshop. Low ceiling heights mean that services such as heating and cooling need to be tightly packed. Rather than concealing them behind a suspended ceiling, which would have reduced the spatial quality, they are on view in their foil wrappings. Hanging below them are a sequence of lighting tracks supporting the latest low glare LED light fittings.
The handsome exterior of the building has been cleaned and restored and a new rear extension enlarges the ground, first and second floors. A roof extension is clad in carefully detailed zinc and complements the beautifully crafted original brickwork below.
The spaces inside the store are open, light and designed to be flexible: giving the bookseller great freedom in setting out the departments and the displays to respond to changing book reading patterns. A new cafe, gallery and event space provide the facilities for an ambitious programme of in-store events. At the rear of the ground floor is the original assembly hall and gym - a magnificent space that was used to host meetings and dances. A mezzanine was subsequently added, which largely destroyed its volumetric quality: the conversion has removed a significant part to restore the double-height space.
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Tom Delay and The Fun of Election Law
Tom Delay and the Republican Party of Texas are learning the joys of election law. On Thursday, a federal appeals court ruled that Delay cannot be taken off of the ballot in Texas because he won the primary and isn’t dead or otherwise not qualified to run. The Washington Post and the New York Times. As the Times reports:
The 3-to-0 decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, is a victory for Texas Democrats, who have voiced hope that Mr. DeLay’s involvement in a series of lobbying and campaign finance scandals will help elect a Democrat to the seat. Unless an appeal to the Supreme Court keeps him off the ballot, Mr. DeLay, the former House majority leader, will become a candidate against his wishes and remain in the spotlight, a potent symbol for Democrats in races nationwide.
The appellate panel affirmed a ruling by a federal district judge in Austin who rejected claims by Mr. DeLay and the Texas Republican Party that he was ineligible to run because he had moved to Virginia. The Constitution requires only that a Congressional candidate be a resident of the district on Election Day, not before it, the judges ruled. Whether or not Mr. DeLay chooses to run, they said, his name and his name alone would stay on the Republican line.
For those of you who want to have weekend reading for the beach, you can read the entire opinion here.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on August 4, 2006 by thadhall.
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U.S. - South Korea Relations
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-Hwan
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently met with South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-Hwan to discuss a wide range of bilateral, regional, and global issues.
On North Korea, Secretary Clinton said the United States remains committed to achieving a lasting peace on a denuclearized Korean Peninsula. "Our position," she said, "has not changed. While we remain open to direct engagement with North Korea, we remain firm in our resolve and our shared position that Pyongyang must improve its relations with the Republic of Korea." She also announced that the U.S., South Korea, and Japan plan to hold another trilateral meeting on this issue later this summer.
On the humanitarian front, the United States remains deeply concerned about the well-being of the North Korean people. The United States is analyzing the results of a recent field team's assessment and is closely monitoring the food situation in North Korea. Secretary Clinton said no decision has been made about providing food aid at this time. Such a decision must be based on legitimate humanitarian needs, competing needs elsewhere around the world, and the United States' ability to ensure and monitor that whatever food aid is provided actually reaches the people who are in need.
With regard to trade, the U.S. and South Korea are both committed to passing and implementing the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. Secretary Clinton said the trade agreement will boost exports and create tens of thousands of new jobs in both the U.S. and South Korea. She also said it would "send a powerful message that the United States and the Republic of Korea are strategic partners for the long term, and that America is fully embracing our continuing role as a Pacific power."
The United States applauds South Korea's extraordinary economic success, now the 12th largest economy in the world, and its impressive efforts as an emerging donor country to triple its development budget by 2015. The U.S signed a Memorandum of Understanding with South Korea that will promote efficiency in aid delivery and boost its impact in areas such as global hunger and food security, and maternal and children’s health, as well as help encourage the shift from aid to sustained economic growth and prosperity.
As Secretary Clinton said, "the Republic of Korea is an exemplary country fulfilling its responsibilities at home and abroad, and also an exemplary friend."
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When may a Tribunal judgement be reviewed following new evidence?
In Outasight VB Ltd v Brown, the EAT has held that the Employment Tribunal Rules of Procedure 2013 did not introduce any change to the law on when a judgment may be reviewed in the light of new evidence. The principles set down by the Court of Appeal in Ladd v Marshall still apply to the question of whether the ‘interests of justice’ require a review (now known as ‘reconsideration’) under rule 70 of the 2013 Rules.
B brought claims of wrongful dismissal and breach of contract against VB Ltd after he was dismissed for theft. He argued that the dismissal was part of a plot against him by W, the director who had dismissed him. W asserted that he had been alerted to the theft by O, another employee, and that he had conducted an investigation that confirmed B’s guilt. O did not give evidence at the hearing and only W gave evidence for VB Ltd. The tribunal preferred W’s evidence and dismissed the claims, finding that B’s guilt was established. After receiving the judgment, B did further research into W’s background and discovered evidence of a conviction for fraud. He sought reconsideration of the judgment on the basis of this fresh evidence.
At the reconsideration hearing, the tribunal did not accept B’s assertion that he had been unable to find the evidence before the liability hearing. It noted that, under the ‘strict’ rule 34 of the Tribunal Rules 2004, this would not count as ‘fresh evidence’. However, the tribunal took the view that it had wider discretion under rule 70 of the 2013 Rules, which allows for reconsideration where necessary in the interests of justice, and agreed to revoke its judgment. The tribunal took into account that its original judgment had been finely balanced, that W’s credibility was central, and that B, who represented himself, had been ‘out of his depth’ at the original hearing. VB Ltd appealed to the EAT.
Her Honour Judge Eady QC, sitting alone in the EAT, reviewed the change of language between the 2004 and 2013 Rules. Rule 34(3) of the 2004 Rules set out specific circumstances in which a judgment may be reviewed. These included, at paragraph (d), where new evidence became available that was not available at the time of the hearing. Rule 34(3)(e) also provided for review where the interests of justice required it. Thus, rule 34(3)(d) reflected the principles governing the admission of new evidence on appeal set out by the Court of Appeal in Ladd v Marshall 1954 3 All ER 745, CA, and rule 34(3)(e) recognised that, even where these principles were not strictly met, the interests of justice may still require new evidence to be considered. In HHJ Eady’s view, the fact that rule 70 of the 2013 Rules dispenses with the specific categories did not indicate any change of position, nor did it suggest that the Ladd v Marshall principles no longer applied. The interests of justice may allow fresh evidence to be adduced where some additional factor or mitigating circumstance has the effect that the evidence in question could not be obtained with reasonable diligence at an earlier stage. This might be so where, for example, a party was ‘ambushed’ by the introduction of evidence at the hearing or was incorrectly refused an adjournment.
The tribunal had therefore erred in law in its approach. HHJ Eady went on to consider whether the result it reached was correct in any event and concluded that it was not. It could not be said that B was denied a fair hearing and the tribunal had failed to take into account the broader interests of justice, in particular the interest in finality of litigation. The appeal would therefore be allowed, the reconsideration judgment would be overturned and the original liability decision would be reinstated.
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No reimbursement of EAT Fees by Respondent Linking bonus entitlement to sickness record was disability discrimination
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Dave Gahan (/ɡɑːn/; born David Callcott; 9 May 1962) is an English singer-songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the electronic band Depeche Mode since their debut in 1980. Q magazine ranked Gahan No. 73 on its list of the "100 Greatest Singers"[1] and No. 27 on its list of "The 100 Greatest Frontmen".[2] Gahan is known for his "commanding presence on stage"[3] and his "huge, deep baritone voice".[4]
Gahan performing at Royal Albert Hall, 2010
David Callcott
(1962-05-09) 9 May 1962 (age 58)
Epping, Essex, England
Alternative dance, synth-pop, electronic, new wave, industrial rock, alternative rock
Vocals, harmonica
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Although his bandmate Martin Gore continues to be the main songwriter for Depeche Mode, Gahan has contributed a number of songs to the albums Playing the Angel (2005), Sounds of the Universe (2009), Delta Machine (2013) and Spirit (2017). Four of these songs were released as singles, including "Suffer Well" in 2005, "Hole to Feed" in 2009, "Should Be Higher" in 2013, and "Cover Me" in 2017.
Gahan's albums as a solo artist are Paper Monsters (released 2003) and Hourglass (2007). In 2012 and 2015 he also contributed lyrics and sang lead vocals on the Soulsavers albums The Light the Dead See and Angels & Ghosts.
1 Childhood and early years
2 Career in Depeche Mode (1980–present)
3 Solo albums and collaborations (1997–present)
4.1 Health issues
5.2 with Soulsavers
5.3 with Depeche Mode
Childhood and early yearsEdit
Gahan was born as David Callcott on 9 May 1962 into a working-class family, to parents Len Callcott (a bus driver of Malaysian ancestry)[5] and his wife Sylvia (a conductress or "clippy" on London buses), Dave was only six months old when his father left the family. Sylvia and Len divorced two years later and his mother moved Dave and sister Sue (born 1960) to Basildon, Essex, after Sylvia met and married her second husband Jack Gahan (an administrator with Shell Oil). The Gahan family continued to grow with the birth of two more half-brothers Peter (born 1966) and Phil (born 1968). Dave and Sue were raised under the impression that their mother's second husband, Jack, was their natural father.[6]
When Gahan was 9 years old, his stepfather died. His father showed up again when he was 10. "I'll never forget that day. When I came home from school, there was this stranger in my mum's house. My mother introduced him to me as my real dad. I remember I said, that was impossible because my father was dead. How was I supposed to know who that man was? From that day on, Len often visited the house, until one year later he disappeared again, forever this time."[7][8]
While attending Barstable School on Timberlog Close in Basildon, Gahan started playing truant, got into trouble with the police, was suspended from school and ended up in juvenile court three times for offences ranging from joyriding and graffiti to criminal damage and theft.[9] He enjoyed the thrill of stealing cars, driving them around, and setting them alight.[10] Gahan tells of the time: "I was pretty wild. I loved the excitement of nicking a motor, screeching off and being chased by the police. Hiding behind the wall with your heart beating gives you a real kick – 'will they get you?'".[11] In his final year at school, he applied for a job as an apprentice fitter with North Thames Gas. He was told by his probation officer to be honest with the interviewer, and as a result, he admitted his criminal record but claimed he was a "reformed character." As a result, he did not get the job which, he claimed, led to him trashing his probation officer's office. His punishment was weekend custody at a sub-Borstal attendance centre in Romford for one year.[10] Gahan recalls: "You had to work. I remember doing boxing, stuff like that. You had to have your hair cut. It was every weekend, so you were deprived of your weekend and it seemed like forever. I was told very clearly that my next thing was detention centre. To be honest, music saved me."[12]
Career in Depeche Mode (1980–present)Edit
Gahan signing autographs in 2003
In March 1980, Martin Gore, Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke formed the band Composition of Sound, with Clarke on vocals and guitar, Gore on keyboards and Fletcher on bass. Clarke and Fletcher soon switched to synthesizers. The same year, Gahan joined the band after Clarke heard him perform David Bowie's "Heroes."[13] The band was soon renamed Depeche Mode, a name suggested by Gahan after he had come across a fashion magazine called Dépêche-mode.[14] A new wave/synthpop pioneer of the early 1980s, Depeche Mode have released 14 studio albums, four greatest hits compilations and two remix albums. The band has achieved global sales in excess of 100 million records.[15][16] Four of the band's singles have reached number one on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart: "Enjoy the Silence" (1990), "Policy of Truth" (1990), "I Feel You" (1993), and "Walking in My Shoes" (1993).[17]
In a 2003 interview, Gahan shared that "During the making of Exciter, sometimes I felt a bit frustrated that there was a lack of experimentation."[18] This led him, in 2004, to tell his bandmates that he wanted to write half of the songs on their next album, and there was "no way" he could be involved in the band without contributing as a songwriter.[19] Eventually, there was a compromise, and three of Gahan's songs appeared on 2005's Playing the Angel: "Suffer Well" (nominated for a Grammy award), "I Want It All" and "Nothing's Impossible."[citation needed] "Suffer Well" was released as a single in 2006, reaching No. 12 in the UK.[citation needed] Gahan also wrote the lyrics to the B-side "Oh Well", although the music was written by Martin Gore. It was their first writing collaboration.[20][21]
Gahan's persona onstage is influenced by Dave Vanian, frontman of The Damned.[22][23]
Solo albums and collaborations (1997–present)Edit
In 2003, Gahan released his first solo album, Paper Monsters (which he co-wrote with guitarist and friend Knox Chandler), followed by the Paper Monsters Tour (including a performance at 2003's Glastonbury Festival), singing both his new solo tracks and Depeche Mode fan favourites. The album was a moderate success. The first single "Dirty Sticky Floors" hit the Top 20 in the UK Singles Chart. The album became a Top 10 hit on the European album chart and a Top 40 hit in the UK Albums Chart.[24]
In 2007, Gahan announced he was working on a new album via a video greeting for Depeche Mode's official website recorded at the 2007 MusiCares Charity event on 11 May. The album, entitled Hourglass, was accompanied working by Andrew Phillpott and Christian Eigner.[25][26] The material was recorded at Gahan's 11th Floor Studios in New York City. According to Gahan, Hourglass is more electronic-sounding than Paper Monsters.[27] The album made the UK Top 50, the French Top 20 and narrowly missed going to No. 1 in Germany. The first single to be pulled from Hourglass was "Kingdom".[28][29]
In July 2007, Side-Line magazine revealed that Gahan had been working with Thomas Anselmi on a project called Mirror, which was produced by Vincent Jones. Along with Jones, who played with Gahan's touring band and mixed the live DVD Live Monsters,[30] Mirror featured another Gahan collaborator, Knox Chandler (Siouxsie & the Banshees, the Psychedelic Furs), as well as piano by Bowie favourite Mike Garson, and a monologue by Warhol superstar Joe Dallesandro. Gahan sang vocals on the track "Nostalgia".[31] The song was released in October 2008,[32] and the album released via download at the start of 2009. He also appeared in the accompanying video for the song.[33]
Gahan with Depeche Mode in 2009
Gahan also contributed vocals to a track called "Visitors", after walking in while producer and ex-Clor guitarist Luke Smith was working on the song in his New York studio. The song was released under the artist name of frYars.[34]
Gahan is the lead singer and lyricist on Soulsavers' fourth studio album The Light the Dead See. The album was released on 21 May 2012.[35]
Gahan sings and plays harmonica on "Low Guns", the first single from the 2014 album The Morning After by English band SixToes. The single was released on 18 November 2013. The SixToes remix of "Jezebel" was released on the special edition of Sounds of the Universe in 2009. Members of SixToes also collaborated with Soulsavers, on the album The Light the Dead See.[36]
In 2017 Gahan featured on Null + Voids song "Where I wait"[37] from the album Cryosleep where the song features three times in different remixes.[38]
In 2018, a remix of the Goldfrapp single "Ocean" featuring guest vocals from Gahan was released as a digital download on 21 May 2018. Regarding the collaboration, the Goldfrapp issued a statement: "Working with Dave Gahan on the new version of 'Ocean' had been a real honor for us as a band."[39]
Gahan has lived in New York City since 1997.[40] He lives with his third wife, Jennifer Sklias; their daughter; and Sklias's son from a previous relationship, whom Gahan officially adopted in 2010.[41] Gahan also has a biological son named Jack from his first marriage to Joanne Fox. Gahan's marriage to his second wife, Teresa Conroy, a former Depeche Mode publicist, lasted four years.
Gahan is a convert to the Greek Orthodox Church.[42][43] In a 2008 interview, he explains his religious faith in the following words: "When it comes to religion, it’s very confusing and always has been for thousands of years and probably will be for thousands of years more. I don’t know what it is I believe in, but I know that I feel a sense of some kind of higher power, for lack of better words."[44]
Health issuesEdit
Gahan is a recovering heroin addict. He has survived four brushes with death, living up to the nickname "The Cat", which paramedics gave him during his roughest years in Los Angeles.[45] In October 1993, Gahan suffered a minor drug-induced heart attack during a performance in New Orleans, leaving his bandmates to improvise an encore without him.[46] The second brush came when he attempted suicide by slashing his wrists in August 1995: "It was definitely a suicide attempt," said Gahan, "but it was also a cry for help. I made sure there were people who might find me".[47]
On 28 May 1996, Gahan overdosed on a speedball at the Sunset Marquis Hotel in Los Angeles, which resulted in his heart stopping for two minutes until he was revived by paramedics.[45] He said of the experience, "All I saw and all I felt at first was complete darkness. I've never been in a space that was blacker, and I remember feeling that whatever it was I was doing, it was really wrong. Then the next thing I remember was seeing myself on the floor, on the steps outside my hotel bathroom, and there was a lot of activity going on around me. I tried to shout out "I'm up here!" from wherever it was I was floating but nobody could hear me. In some ways it was very liberating. Then I came to and a cop was handcuffing me. It certainly wasn't a place I'd like to visit again."[14] Several months later, after facing drug charges, Gahan sought help at a rehabilitation center.[48]
On 12 May 2009, shortly before the band were due onstage in Athens, Greece, for a concert on Depeche Mode's Tour of the Universe, Gahan fell ill in his dressing room. He was rushed to hospital where it was initially suspected he was suffering from a bout of gastroenteritis.[49] An ultrasound revealed a malignant tumor in his bladder, which was removed.[50][51] This resulted in several postponed shows, and Gahan underwent cancer treatments during the remaining three months of the tour.[52]
Gahan later suffered a torn calf muscle while performing in Bilbao, Spain, on 9 July 2009, resulting in two further cancellations.[53] After a two-week break, he and Depeche Mode returned to the tour for their North American leg. While performing in Seattle on 10 August 2009, Gahan again suffered injury, this time straining his vocal cords. Doctors ordered Gahan complete vocal rest, resulting in two more cancelled shows.[54][55]
In May 2011, Gahan was honored at the seventh annual MusiCares MAP Fund Benefit Concert in Los Angeles[56] for achieving more than 10 years of sobriety.[57]
DiscographyEdit
Main article: Dave Gahan discography
Studio albumsEdit
Paper Monsters (2003)
Hourglass (2007)
with SoulsaversEdit
The Light the Dead See (2012)
Angels & Ghosts (2015)
with Depeche ModeEdit
Speak & Spell (1981)
A Broken Frame (1982)
Construction Time Again (1983)
Some Great Reward (1984)
Black Celebration (1986)
Music for the Masses (1987)
Violator (1990)
Songs of Faith and Devotion (1993)
Ultra (1997)
Exciter (2001)
Playing the Angel (2005)
Sounds of the Universe (2009)
Delta Machine (2013)
Spirit (2017)
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